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Words with specific British English meanings that have different meanings in American and/or additional meanings common to both languages (e.g. pants, cot) are to be found at List of words having different meanings in American and British English. When such words are herein used or referenced, they are marked with the flag [DM] (different meaning).
A bus-based public transport system designed to improve capacity and reliability relative to a conventional bus system. Bus station or bus depot A structure where city or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. Bus stop A designated place where buses stop for passengers to board or alight from it. Business route or city route
Bretonside bus station: Plymouth: Closed Brighouse bus station: Brighouse: 6 [6] Operating Bristol bus station: Bristol: Operating Broadmarsh bus station: Nottingham: Operating Burnley bus station: Burnley: 18 [7] Operating Bury Interchange: Bury: 19 [8] Bury tram stop: Operating Canterbury Bus Station Canterbury 25 Operating Castleford bus ...
Bus Stop is a drama, with romantic and some comedic elements. It is set in a diner in rural Kansas, about 25 miles west of Kansas City, Missouri, during a snowstorm. The bus passengers had to take shelter here. The characters are: Grace Hoylard – Owner of the diner. She is 40ish, and pretty in a fading, hard-bitten way.
A rollsign on the MBTA Red Line in Boston.This sign has a hand crank to change the destinations displayed, but many rollsigns are motorized. For many decades, the most common type of multiple-option destination sign was the rollsign (or bus blind, curtain sign, destination blind, or tram scroll): a roll of flexible material with pre-printed route number/letter and destinations (or route name ...
Bus passenger numbers continued to decline in the 1960s. The Transport Act 1968 was an attempt to rationalise publicly owned bus services and provide a framework for the subsidy of uneconomic but socially necessary services. The Act: transferred the English and Welsh bus companies of the Transport Holding Company to the new National Bus Company
A bus stop is a place where buses stop for passengers to get on and off the bus.The construction of bus stops tends to reflect the level of usage, where stops at busy locations may have shelters, seating, and possibly electronic passenger information systems; less busy stops may use a simple pole and flag to mark the location.
A small number of towns and cities, such as Reading and Nottingham, retained public ownership of their bus networks; [24] [25] other cities and regions such as West Yorkshire and Manchester, are bringing their networks back under public control. [26] [27] Bus transport remains the most popular mode of transport throughout England. [28]