Posts Tagged ‘ network west midlands ’

Network WM in URL Hell

Network WM in URL Hell

Planning your journey online can be useful, save time and money if you do it right (and if then the busses actually turn up of course) so kudos to Network West Midlands for promoting that. In a bold marketing move, they’ve got for a poster campaign all over the city to promote planning your journey online without mentioning where one might do that. Small posters and large billboards:   No web address, URL, app, QR code, nor mention of any of the three online journey planning services they promote at all. Brave egalitarian move, or oversight (all of the posters they’ve got that promoting offline things like bus-passes do have their web address on)? Bold, brave. Er, Centro?

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BiNS Advent Calendar 2008 – December 17th

We’ve had blogging bus drivers, but until now I’d not seen a lot of singing ones. Or train drivers, or metro drivers (tho’ I’m sorry mate, but I hesitate to call that bit singing), but all are to be found here in the “Network West Midlands Christmas Carol”. Most doing that “Rex Harrison Talking”-type of singing, which is sorta Christmassy really. See every entry in the BiNS 2008 Advent Calendar. Buy a 2009 Calendar for 365 days of Brum.

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