I’ve been going though all the London Transport bus stops and I find a lot of stops that claim to have indicators in these forms…
| codes | count |
|---|---|
| ->E | 793 |
| E-bound | 29 |
| ->N | 918 |
| ->N1 | 3 |
| N-bound | 31 |
| ->NE | 41 |
| NE-bound | 10 |
| Northbound | 2 |
| ->NW | 47 |
| NW-bound | 10 |
| ->S | 904 |
| ->S1 | 3 |
| S-bound | 36 |
| ->SE | 52 |
| SE-bound | 10 |
| Southbound | 4 |
| ->SW | 36 |
| SW-bound | 13 |
| ->W | 823 |
| W-bound | 25 |
But when I look using Google StreetView none of these stops have indicators (big white Johnson Capital Letters on a red circle). So why the overlapping forms of “N-bound” and “->N” when the usable thing here for a person getting a bus is the “towards X” or do people have compasses when catching a bus?
The standard seem to be defined here: https://content.tfl.gov.uk/buses-bus-stop-graphics-standard-issue02.pdf