'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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I never understood how tourists were supposed to be able to figure out the Melbourne tram system.
In the old days, you asked a conductor. But sadly the conductors were all sacked and replaced by machines (and some of them were re-employed as ticket inspectors because no-one bothers buying a ticket any more!). It may be a Darwinian system but we're fond of it. (Not.)
But maps of the tram system are pretty widely available, I would have thought?
The New Orleans bus system is pretty much designed to be as hard to figure out as possible. The bus stop signs all just say "Bus Stop" and have no indication as to what lines stop there or where they go. I've been here for four years, and I only know where three of the lines actually go. (It doesn't really help that, at college orientation, we're told, "The buses are dangerous. Don't take them," so it took me until the middle of sophomore year before I even tried.)
Angus, I never saw any at any of the tram stops, which is where one might reasonably expect to find them (except for the fact that most tram stops don't have shelters, so maps would get rained on and ruined pretty quick). They may be available elsewhere, but I wouldn't know where to look. Some of the tram stops did have little maps for their individual lines behind fogged-up glass, but stops that are used by several lines don't have maps of every line.
It's also possible that I just didn't try very hard to find a map. Because it should be easy, dammit! :-)
Because Australia is too sodding long to type!
Yes!
The Sydney one does look a little confusing, but it also looks liek it has a LOT of stops, which is neat. DC's is easy, but only becuase there aren't so many stops...
Lothian buses are informationly excellent all the stops are well marked and have little route diagrams.
Yeah, but you have a Pentagon stop, which is dead cool.
Whats a Pentagon stop?
A stop under the Pentagon in Washington.
Julie ... what Jim said. I write and say "Oz" frequently but then I have a horrible habit of shortening names.
Plus! I was irreprapblye parabola irreparably damaged by going to the cinema and seeing
Oz*
when I was about 12.
* This was a mid-70s Australian version of the Wizard of Oz.
I thought it was also supposed to reflect native pronounciation, since several Australians have corrected me when I've begun the name with the same sound as in Austria.