| Comment | At least from my experience, being an X bus doesn't really mean it goes non-stop from beginning to end, rather that at certain parts it'll make different routes from other busses that make it quicker. For instance, the McGill's 23 and X23 both go from Erskine to Glasgow, and they're mostly pretty similar, except the 23 goes to a few more places (e.g the QEUH, Govan Cross and so on), whereas the X23 skips them and takes a more direct route to the bus station.
That being said, nowadays at least I don't see too many cases where the X bus and the "original" route it's based on are both running - I think the X indicator is branding more than anything else. But I believe a general indication is, if it's an "X" bus, it'll usually have a fair period of time (say, around 20 minutes?) where it doesn't make any stops. |
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