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Gotta love that they relabel everything, but don't fix the routes.
The 627 buses always used to say 'Chadstone' when they left their outer terminus (which the driver then changed at Chadstone to East Brighton/Elsternwick) This meant that at stops on Koornang Road buses in both directions had the same destination sign and number.
For some really confusing bus stop signs you should check out some in Grimshaw Street Greensborough. There is one bus route (the 566) which doubles back on itself for about 2km's, so on each sign along this stretch you have the same route listed twice with two different destinations. Really this shows inadequacies in both signage and network planning (two routes were merged a few years ago causing this anomaly).
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Gotta love that they relabel everything, but don't fix the routes.
The 627 buses always used to say 'Chadstone' when they left their outer terminus (which the driver then changed at Chadstone to East Brighton/Elsternwick) This meant that at stops on Koornang Road buses in both directions had the same destination sign and number.
Do they still do this?
HDZ - I haven't looked closely. But the route number is certainly the same.
While you were posting that, I've added a whole heap of 'mouseover' comments - for some reason viewable in IE but not Firefox.
For some really confusing bus stop signs you should check out some in Grimshaw Street Greensborough. There is one bus route (the 566) which doubles back on itself for about 2km's, so on each sign along this stretch you have the same route listed twice with two different destinations. Really this shows inadequacies in both signage and network planning (two routes were merged a few years ago causing this anomaly).
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