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Each stop will have a designation for identification on maps, as per London.

Therefore if you looked at a city centre bus stop map, and wanted a 4 northbound is would be listed as stopping at 'OF'.

The first tender is for 100, which will be rolled out across the city centre. The long term plan will for them to be extended network wide.

However, for the time being the the other stops on the network will (as has started) be painted yellow.

Gavin

Each stop will have a designation for identification on maps, as per London.

Therefore if you looked at a city centre bus stop map, and wanted a 4 northbound is would be listed as stopping at 'OF'.

The missing '116' tile has now been added to the new northbound bus stop.

Gavin

Just to clear up a few points mentioned...

The first 110 of these new stops are expected to be rolled out across the city centre by Christmas.

The plan is to only move routes with under 15 minute frequency peak to frequency based timetables otherwise the gap is too big. In a move forward, however, departure based timetables will clearly show that they are terminus departure times (as many people believe that the times listed are from that stop) and the information will be presented in an easier to understand format.

Ideally, Dublin Bus would like that new routes introduced would be frequency based if at all possible.

In regard to the 'OF' on the top of the stop, the main city centre departure points will be divided into 6 stop areas and all stops within the area denoted by a letter.

Maps will be displayed on spare panels at bus stops (priority will be for all timetables to be displayed first), online and ideally at other locations but that will have to be worked out with the city council.

The reason for lower case letters is that they are much better for anyone who is visually impaired which is why Dublin Bus is moving as much as they can across to lower case. This isn't as clear on electronic scrolls as lower case letters can look more like digits. However, all electronic scrolls used by Dublin Bus meet DiPTAC approved standards.

Also introducing the two dots into the times themselves (as in 15:45) will make them clearer too.

Hope this answers a few questions.

Gavin

As per busy stops in London, numbers can be doubled up per tile. However, this would be avoided where at all possible as it reduces the size of the numbers.

The southbound 10/46A new style stop has two blocks of 8 slots.

It may be possible to fit a further slot of 8 numbers to the pole, giving 8+8+8=24, I'll have to check this tho.

Gavin