Teban54
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If we're branding different trunks of the LRT system currently known as Green Line with distinct colors, why not use drastically different colors instead? Yes, several green-ish colors
is a cute way to acknowledge the roots of the entire LRT network from the Green Line, but they're unnecessary and confusing from an operational perspective.
Imagine a passenger at Park St facing one of the following scenarios, waiting on the same platform:
As soon as you decide to have multiple lines branded with different colors at transfer stations - and I definitely agree with applying this to GL as @Riverside illustrated - their colors should be as easily distinguishable as possible, regardless of whether they're interlined or not. Most large-scale transit systems I'm familiar with are indeed designed to achieve that.
If anything, the fact that the abovementioned trunk lines share the same LRT system, the same platforms and likely the same fleet makes the distinction more crucial, not less. While green/emerald/teal is better than green/green/green, it leaves much to be desired, especially considering their shades can easily be messed up in different places in practice.
Here's a bad example IMO: National Library station in Beijing. In practice, these colors can be hard to tell on platforms thanks to many different kinds of displays, especially between Lines 9 and 16. And they're not even interlined (4 and 9 have cross-platform transfers, while 16 has its own platform).
is a cute way to acknowledge the roots of the entire LRT network from the Green Line, but they're unnecessary and confusing from an operational perspective.
Imagine a passenger at Park St facing one of the following scenarios, waiting on the same platform:
- Green Line D/E to Huntington, Green Line A/B/C to Kenmore, Green Line G to Seaport
- Green Line to Huntington, Emerald Line to Kenmore, Teal Line to Seaport
- Green Line to Huntington, Gold Line to Kenmore, Magenta Line to Seaport (ok I know gold/yellow has traditionally been reserved for Urban Ring, but still)
As soon as you decide to have multiple lines branded with different colors at transfer stations - and I definitely agree with applying this to GL as @Riverside illustrated - their colors should be as easily distinguishable as possible, regardless of whether they're interlined or not. Most large-scale transit systems I'm familiar with are indeed designed to achieve that.
If anything, the fact that the abovementioned trunk lines share the same LRT system, the same platforms and likely the same fleet makes the distinction more crucial, not less. While green/emerald/teal is better than green/green/green, it leaves much to be desired, especially considering their shades can easily be messed up in different places in practice.
Here's a bad example IMO: National Library station in Beijing. In practice, these colors can be hard to tell on platforms thanks to many different kinds of displays, especially between Lines 9 and 16. And they're not even interlined (4 and 9 have cross-platform transfers, while 16 has its own platform).