PSV Accessibility Regulations (DDA Regulations) - at a glance
PSV Accessibility Regulations (DDA Regulations) - at a glance
I fully agree with James101. Common sense should prevail and I'm not concerned in the slightest if a destination display doesn't conform to the rules. Providing bus services must be the priority. Most of you living in the metropolis won't care about the desperate position of rural bus services, but trivial rules such as these are just another nail in the coffin of transport links as they make it more difficult for small companies to consider operating routes lost because of Tory cuts to local authority funding. Perfectly good low floor buses can't be used because the rules changed after they were built. Most urban buses are run commercially and if one or two supported routes go its isn't the end of the world as there are often alternatives not too far away. And in urban areas the cuts are often to evening and Sunday routes; there's still a daytime one. In rural areas they've long gone and its now ANY service under threat. So everything should be done to ensure that rural lifelines are maintained and many of these regulations are really luxuries; as long as a vehicle has wheelchair access and a lowered step we should be satisfied. If they were really serious about destinations being clear they would have stipulated one large ultimate display, as in London, instead of allowing these unnecessary two line, squashed displays with ten via points which even those with good eyesight won't stand to watch for twenty seconds or so, especially as most bus stops now have timetables with route details - and all should (Durham please note, yours are crap). And why are compressed letters for g, p, q, y allowed when they make it much harder to read. The rules are illogical and obsessive and common sense must prevail.
