Having been in public (bus) transportation for a number of years, I can tell you that the number one reason for hitting a bus is that they didn't see it. I find that amazing, but it was common. We had buses that were painted with a design the looked like mountains and sky. When we first introduced them, we had an incredible number of accidents where someone ran into a 42 foot long bus and then said that they didn't even see it. I was the one that said that I thought it was our color choices that caused it. The added a few more reflectors and the numbers dropped considerably.
There's something ironic about a little kid's T-shirt having to have "I'm going to the Walt Disney World Resort" (as opposed to just "I'm going to Disney World") along with several characters crammed on the front of it, but a huge bus only says "Disney Transportation".
Yeah, I get that (worked in marketing & advertising for many years) but I prefer "simple" for advertising messages in general. Those shirts are just a huge pet peeve of mine because I think they would sell a lot more of them if they simply said "I'm going to Disney World/Disneyland". I would have bought at least 3 of them. As is, I've bought zero and won't ever buy them. I'm sure Disney is worried.
I suggested blue lol, and you did a great job! I just think the combo of blue, white and silver looks great. Red and silver to me is just gross. If you take out the silver and put white in its place, then you have a donald duck bus lol....keep the red, lose the silver and put pin stripes of yellow, and add black and theres a mickey bus...it would have been better to use colors of the characters and still keep it clean and modern looking.Since someone suggested blue, here's how that would look with the same shade of silver:
And as long as we're playing around, I thought this black had a nice sharp look to it... I kept the red logo to mimic Monorail Black's red accent:
A fleet of monorail-style multicolored buses might be fun.
I think it's not bad, which is good. I really think it goes back to Samuel Lau, the new vice president of Transportation that they brought in a little while ago. He came from the world of big city municipal transportation. I'm in a quasi-related field, and I could see how someone might look at the purple pants and silly buses and see that as a lack of focus. If you look at the changes recently (the monotone monorail spiel, the bus driver costumes and now this new paint scheme), I think he is leaving his mark on transportation as a safe, professional (somewhat staid) service. It's not bad, but I don't absolutely love it. And it's not completely without design flourish, either... it's just nothing exciting.
