This sign from Albany Transit in Oregon shows four basic pieces of information, at the top is a logo to identify the district, blow that is a standard symbol for No Parking, below that is the word Bus Stop to let everyone know that this is a bus stop and lastly is the information phone number for the public to call.

This sign from CAT is very basic, just the Agency logo and their phone number.

This is one of the more basic signs, just the name of the district and the word Bus Stop.  This is a sign from Trinity Transit.

Here are three different signs providing route information for 6 different routes.  The Marguerite sign identifies which of the shuttle routes serves the sign, the SamTrans sign identifies the two routes that serve this stop (KX & RX) while the VTA sign identifies one VTA route (the 22 line), a regional express line (the DB Express) and a city operatoed Shuttle (The Palo Alto E route).

This sign from Union City shows the route numbers and destinations.  The strips are also color coded by Route Number.

VTA uses the color coding to represent different service types, the light blue and light green above are used for non-VTA services, for VTA services they use Blue for Regular routes, Green for Limited Stop routes, Red for Express routes and White for their BRT (Rapid) routes.

This sign from Basin Transit shows four pieces of information, the first ia again the logo representing the district, the second is the approximate time the bus shows up every hour (this only really works for smaller districts that can run there schedules at even headways and running times), again the word Bus Stop, and again the phune number of the district.

This sign from SLO Transit shows not only the routes, but also what times those buses are due.  Again, this only really works in this format if the running times and headways are the same all day long.

Revised:  July 4, 2005

The signs from Montreal are coded with a series of symbols that describe the route:
- wheelchair symbol if it's an accessible route
- metro logo and station name if that direction of the route goes to a metro station (Route 216 on the attached photo)
- train logo (same idea as metro above) (all the other routes on this photo)
- AM and/or PM if it's a peak only route (they have since changed it to text "lundi au vendredi, periodes de pointe seulement", but I prefer the simple "AM" and/or "PM"
- it's more language-independent, and clearly shows which peaks have service)
- a moon symbol if it's one of the special overnight buses
- etc.
An "AM" or "PM" is quicker to decipher than a colour code for people who aren't necessarily familiar with the system. A text note like "excluding Sundays" or "no service Sundays" could supplement a regular route number (although this can get complicated - our system maps has a huge long list of exceptions to the "black routes run 18 hours/day, 7 days/week except as noted ...")

OC Transpo puts the route & destination along with a number used by their IVR system to give the info for that specific stop.