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But the addition of a route numbering system that actually has explicit meaning is something every transit system should adopt, doses ATENOLOL work. BUY ATENOLOL NO PRESCRIPTION, First they divided Seoul into 8 numbered zones, starting at 0 in the downtown core and giving the surrounding zones numbers 1 through 7. Ordering ATENOLOL online, 
Then they used these zones as part of the route numbers. Blue buses have three-digit route numbers, buy ATENOLOL without prescription. The first number indicates the origin zone and the second number the destination zone, with the last number the bus ID number. So if you encounter bus #048, for example, you know it travels from downtown (zone 0) to zone 4. Red buses put a 9 in front to indicate that these are suburban routes, while yellow buses have only two numbers, since they stay within the same zone, BUY ATENOLOL NO PRESCRIPTION.
Think of how useful this system is for those who don't speak Korean - when you see the route number you instantly know where it is going if you know your zone number. No more worrying about which direction the bus is headed either (the fact that one can get on both a #17 UBC or Oak bus headed the same direction at the same stop must confuse a lot of first-time riders in Vancouver).
Seoul has made it even easier than that, since stops are announced not only in Korean, but also in English and sometimes in Japanese or Chinese, as well.
Another smart thing that Seoul has done is to put the major destinations on the side of each bus - see here. BUY ATENOLOL NO PRESCRIPTION, What a simple yet effective idea.
It also seems that the reforms have helped keep public transit mode share high in Seoul. Suburban routes had previously seen dwindling ridership and irregular headways, while central city routes were crowded and plagued by reckless driving. By developing a hierarchical system of trunk, feeder, intercity, and circular routes, Seoul made their buses easy for riders to use, while 183 km of dedicated median busways improved on-time performance. Even in the face of a 7% increase in mode share for the automobile between 2000 and 2006, mode share for bus and subway held steady at 28% and 35% respectively.
The average daily number of bus passengers on the system has increased from 4.9 million in 2003 to 5.6 million as of 2009, BUY ATENOLOL NO PRESCRIPTION. Significantly, the total subsidy for bus and subway operations has dropped by US $421 million over this period due to increased ridership and system efficiency.
I applaud the efforts of the Seoul Metropolitan Government to make its system easy to use, even for the novice rider or the foreign visitor. Transit systems in North America would do well to learn from their work.
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For those who would like to hear more, Dr. BUY ATENOLOL NO PRESCRIPTION, Kee Yeon Hwang, the president of the Korea Transport Institute, will be speaking at SFU Surrey on March 31 at 6:30pm. The title of his talk is "The Sustainability Dividend of Building a Better Bus System: Evidence from Seoul's Public Transit Reform". You can register for free here.
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John Calimente is the president of Rail Integrated Developments. He supports great public transit, cycling, walking, transit integrated developments, and non-automobile urban life. Click here to follow TheTransitFan on Twitter.
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I don’t what Seoul, Korea has done in painting their buses to represent the different types of service is new or original. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) has been “branding” their different types of bus service by painting their buses different colors for many, many years. They staarted using red for bus rapid transit (”rapid”), then orange for local service, and blue for express service. When “Matchbox” started putting out a toy (urban transit) bus that looked like one of LACMTA’s “rapid” buses, the LACMTA asked if they would put their logo on it, and Matchbox obliged.
The LACMTA has also adopted a systematic numbering system for their bus routes for many, many years .
[...] How? Re:Place magazine explains that, among other changes, the city’s buses are divided into four categories, and each category features a different color scheme. Ridership has increased and subsidies have [...]
I really wish that the New York MTA would put some effort into their buses. There are buses such as the Q1 with two destinations, while others such as the N22 has the N22a counterpart. The only real advantage we have is the first letter of the bus route tells you what borough you’re in, such as Bx for Bronx and S for Staten Island. The whole MTA is a mess, and the indications of routes and their destinations is only part of the problem.
Given the service area for Translink, Vancouver does have a system similar to Seoul’s. Your examples are simply looking at the network too narrowly. 1-89 are for routes within Vancouver proper, 100’s for the suburbs immediately east of Vancouver (Burnaby, New Westminster, Tri-Cities/PoCoMo), 200’s for suburbs immediately to the north (North Vancouver, West Vancouver), 300’s for the southeast (Surrey, White Rock), 400’s for Richmond, 600’s for Delta, 500’s for further suburbs south of the Fraser (Langley), 700’s for those north of the Fraser (Pitt Meadows, Maple Ridge). What’s left of the 90’s are the express B-Line services which originally ran into Vancouver.
Seeing a route from a different “zone” (route number block not Fare Zone) means that the bus will run to that part of Metro Vancouver. I don’t know if Translink gave as much detailed thought to the numbering within each block of 100 as Seoul did. Local circulator routes are denoted by a C prefix before the route number.
[...] The buses and routes were color-coded—red, blue, yellow and green—for ease of understanding. As John Calimente of re:place magazine recently wrote, it “goes a long way towards solving the bus legibility problem.” [...]
Seoul’s use of colour is to be commended. Of course, there are people who are colour blind - mostly men who cannot distinguish between red and green. (They get drivers’ licenses anyway!)
It requires a larger fleet, since it reduces flexibility to move vehicles around. Currently there are yellow buses (in the Vancouver region that is supposed to indicate “express”) that show up on Community Shuttle routes. B Line liveried buses show up on routes that need an arctic, but are not necessarily B Lines, and so on. Plus there are significant numbers of buses that carry the colours that advertisers determine, since Translink is so cash strapped it cannot afford a consistent corporate identity. But West Vancouver still proudly trumpets its Blue Bus identity long after the rest of the region adopted blue as well.
Of all the problems we face in Greater Vancouver’s transit system the colour of the bus is the least of them!