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Originally Posted by someone123
Vancouver has some buses that share the same number but split off and go to different destinations, like 17 Oak/UBC, which run along the same route for a while then split off and go east and west. This seems strange. Why not pick new numbers?
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Most passengers are likely using the main trunk of the route, not the branches. In Thunder Bay and Toronto, they use letter suffixes to denote which branch the bus will end up on at the end of the trunk route, so instead of "3 City Hall" and "3 Waterfront" you'd have "3C City Hall" and "3W Waterfront". That way you can list just the route number without the name and it's still clear which route it will end up once it gets to the end of the trunk.
Thunder Bay's bus stops are green (can't link image here) and only have a four digit number, you have to use
the app to know which buses go to it unless it has a panel attached (which just has a piece of paper with a spread sheet in it, nothing fancy).
These were supposed to be rolled out at busy stops and terminals but it never happened, the prototype stands alone at the waterfront transit centre three years later:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunde...gers-1.2927564