Saturday 3 February 2007

Do I Need to Know About Dart Explorers?


Emerging from Cherry Brook Drive on to the Dartmouth Road is a bit tricky. Dartmouth Road is a duel carriageway with not a enough room in the central reservation to fit the bus and you end up at an angle. So to see what is coming from the left the driver needs to turn a little and look through a side window. Car drivers in the same situation would look through the rear side window. However as you can see Someone has placed a notice in the bus advertising the fact that we sell Dart Explorer Tickets. Good value too if you like a bus trip followed by a boat trip along the River Dart which rises on the world famous Dartmoor, home of the prison built to hold French prisoners of war. Not from the 1939/45 war, they were on our side then, but from the Napoleonic Wars some time back in the 19th century. I digress; this notice as you can see from the photo is just in the line of sight to prevent the driver of the bus seeing if anything is coming up the Dartmouth Road towards the bus. Good work, Someone.
What makes it worse is the fact that because this notice is in the doorway no one will ever have chance to read it in their rush to get on or to get off the bus. Someone out there isn't helping.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

With just these very factors in mind we've recently standardised on A4 notices (generally advertising "one-offs" like route changes, special offers etc) and these are only allowed to be posted in special double notice-holders which are on the rear of the drivers bulkhead (single decks) or on the stair bulkhead (double decks).

Longer term advertising (like your Dart Explorer) is ALWAYS on cove posters (the long thin ones just below ceiling level) - plenty of room up there and they're more likely to be read there too.

Not only does this help eliminate unnecessary blindspots but it gives a tidier uncluttered appearance to the bus too...

Reckon our managers would breath fire on someone who stuck a poster on the window!