Explain How to Read CATS signs like I’m your grandma who never rode the bus
Hi hi! Random bus question post here :P! BTW IMAGE IS NOT MINE, I found a sign that is relative to my question :)!
To make a long story short, me and my fiancé decided to take a bus trip day to inner Charlotte on Saturday. We both don’t really ride the bus because we’re too scared of public transport systems. But we loved walking around there, kuddos for us for trying! I miss having sidewalks since I come from a place that basically has them everywhere around me LOL.
Anyways, we had trouble getting back home, we rode bus 19 the whole way going to Charlotte. Except we hopped on a bus 26 to get off a certain stop with the bus number 19 (since we were no where near a stop where 19 passes) comes by too, but the stop where we needed to be wasn’t there? We get off so we can still be around the bus signs with our bus number on them. So me and my fiancé had a back and fourth walk around the area to find the stop we needed to be but since the bus numbers 26 and 19 kept showing on the same sign poles, I told him we can just wait at any stop (at least the where we got off to wait) because bus 19 will still come here and we will board it. Except he disagreed because of the whole inbound and outbound so we essentially went down 3 stops on the same side with the same signs until bus 19 showed up. I told him that if we stayed at the original stop we got off on, the bus 19 would’ve still came because it was going to stop there regardless because we are passengers waiting to ride. My fiancé said no because “this stop isn’t one for outbound and this isn’t a mandatory stop area that the bus needs to stop at.” I was using Apple Maps while he was looking at the CATS app as well as Google Maps.
Sorry if this sounds dumb! We really can’t make up what happened. To me, inbound is going towards Charlotte and outbound is going away from city. Any signs on the side that you’re on, as long as it has the bus numbers you need, you can really just wait at any one instead of walking down further to the stop that tells you on any apps. It’s just a matter of being on the right side following traffic and just seeing if your bus numbers will pass lol.