Posted Oct 8, 2010, 2:18 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary | London
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Originally Posted by fusili
Almost every city I have been to that has a metro uses colours to identify the lines. The problem is when you start to get more than 10 or so lines, you just run out of easily distinguishable colours. You have red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and then lighter versions of each. After that it gets confusing. A combination of colours and numbers is best. And the routes should be numbered 1-10 not this 201-202 crap.
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Colours and numbers are probably the all-round best but I do like names. When I was going to Uni last year I enjoyed taking the Victoria line to the Jubilee line. Since Calgary doesn't have any rail companies to derive the names from, they could use animals and colours. You could have:
The Monkey Line
The Elephant Line
The Flamingo Line
The Dove Line
The Smurf Line
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