Quiz question.

[pseudomonas@mastodon.social]

Quiz question. You're in Brussels, waiting for either metro line 2 or metro line 6 to take you to Simonis station.

The board shows "2 SIMONIS 6"

I'm wondering how intuitive this is, so a poll:

Does "2 SIMONIS 6" mean:

[pseudomonas@mastodon.social]

"Second book of Simonis, Chapter 6", is excluded as an option for being contextually implausible.

(I continue to maintain that STIB/MIVB's signage department has as its motto "If You Know, You Know")

[cjwatson@mastodon.ie]

@pseudomonas Errrr. Am I allowed to have context in the form of other similar signs appearing at around the same time?

[pseudomonas@mastodon.social]

@cjwatson Well, if you wait for a minute then one of the numbers will change and one won't.

More seriously, another caption will be shown next to it with an "X Destination Y" rubric too. It's not a given that the leftmost one will leave first.

(if you know what the available lines are, and only one of X and Y corresponds to one of those available lines, then you can infer which way round it works)

[cjwatson@mastodon.ie]

@pseudomonas I'm not sure the first point is non-serious: it might very well be what I'd resort to if faced with this!

[pseudomonas@mastodon.social]

@cjwatson To be fair there's more of a gap between the destination and the number on one side than the other, which I think makes it a fair bit clearer. But not as clear as I'd like.

[sparrowsion@meow.social]

@pseudomonas So was everyone right, or are we all going to miss our train?

[pseudomonas@mastodon.social]

@sparrowsion yes, people were right.