Confusing choices in public transit
Jan. 8th, 2025 08:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcWhen we were moving between the Philippines and Singapore, it was amusing that we would have to switch side for standing on an escalator. Perhaps this mirrored the difference in the side of the road on which one drives.
No such excuse within Britain, though: in London I am used to standing on the right of an escalator but, in using Glasgow's Central Station today, I stood on the left as the signs instruct. For extra dilemma, two different trains were leaving from the same platform at nearly the same time, fortunately they mark their destination on the sign at the front. This is in good Glasgow tradition, given that, as previously noted, local buses with different routes, operated by different companies, can bear the same route number and leave from the same stop.
No such excuse within Britain, though: in London I am used to standing on the right of an escalator but, in using Glasgow's Central Station today, I stood on the left as the signs instruct. For extra dilemma, two different trains were leaving from the same platform at nearly the same time, fortunately they mark their destination on the sign at the front. This is in good Glasgow tradition, given that, as previously noted, local buses with different routes, operated by different companies, can bear the same route number and leave from the same stop.
