London Buses

[martint235]

Has any one else noticed that London buses are starting to move back to white on black destination panels on the front rather than the yellow on black we've seen for a few years?

Way back when I was knee high to a grasshopper (so we're talking over 30 years ago) I learnt my craft as a computer programmer. Everything back then was text based and for a while we were allowed to get away with bizarre colour schemes like pink on green etc. Eventually it was drummed into us that yellow on black was the most readable colour scheme (I remember this because I had always, like many people, assumed that white on black would be better).

So have London buses done some research that suggests white on black is better or are they just harking back to the "good ol' days"?

 

[ianrauk]

No

 

[glenn forger]

Thread of the year.

 

[Beebo]

Martin's "Tales from my commute" thread has now run to 557 pages, I can't see this one making it past 1 page, but who knows, it may be a slow burner.
I will keep a look out for the destination board on buses in future

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

If you try wearing sunglasses the buses will turn a darker shade of red.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I'm a bit bored as all our systems are down. Planned downtime to relocate our server room offsite.

Isn't google wonderful......

http://www.london.gov.uk/mqt/public/question.do?id=47730

 

[martint235]

I'm not alone in my questioning then

 

[GrumpyGregry]

and the 'rules' such as they are.....

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/1970/schedule/2/made?view=plain

No mention of colour just contrast.

My bet is Boris decided white on black because it is 'traditional' and he is a traditionalist and then they did a post-hoc rationalisation by way of justification.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I'm not alone in my questioning then

No there are a few FoI requests about it out there. Folk are highly change averse it seems.

 

[martint235]

Ok, I've only got 556 pages to go apparently to match a thread I started basically to moan about a particular commute

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I remember when the French used to pounce on UK cars without yellow headlights. It was a form of fundraising which lasted until they developed their Péage system, a far more profitable way of raising revenue from Jeannot Létranger. They then accepted that white lights were better than yellow at night.