[dvtrn]

The whole row of a bus line doesn't need to be red or blue to get the point across for me.

For numbered buses I think this makes sense and is already the case, in my example, the Chicago Transit rail line, the different rails aren't numbered, they are literally designated by color-as in going to the blue line all of the signage is blue indicating which line station you're at (NYC for example has numbered transit lines for their trains). Said a better way: in some cities certain transit modes don't have names or numbers, but are literally designated by color. We don't have a 6 train, we have a Blue line. The app is consistent with this-and for me that makes perfect sense.

That's why I think-in this instance, and in many others where various public transit modes are designated by color (I think the MTA in Atlanta does?)-it makes perfect sense. It isn't that the Transit App is arbitrarily assigning colors, the colors are assigned to represent how the Chicago Transit Authority _themselves_ have designated each disparate rail line by color.

In other cases, everything else has the same color. Bus line 80, 72, 76 are all just a standard blue color.

Overall though, I completely get your point.