Re: (NSW) Route numbers

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Paul McCabe" <@> wrote in message
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> "Bradley Torr" <btorr@bigpond.nospam.com> wrote in message
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> > Then you had that completely unnecessary colour change for the
> > Bankstown and Inner West lines (from brown to purple), probably for no
> other
> > reason than that purple 'looks better'.
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> Colourblind people were having trouble identifying the "green" lines from
> the "brown" lines.  Apparently both were seen as a shade of green.  Hence,
> purple was selected.

Also the fact that the "Inner West" and "Bankstown" lines became sort of
merged when they started running trains from Liverpool to the City via both
Bankstown and Regents Park - it sort of makes sense that all local lines
from Liverpool have the same colour (via Regents Park and via Bankstown).

Dave