| Kia Ora Jianshou.
I suspect that the "upward" and "downward" is a legacy of the possible British beginnings of the Shanghai bus service?? In Britain, the habit was to talk about going UP to London or DOWN from London. The railways refined this to talk about trains being UP trains or DOWN trains when running to or from a major terminal . So I suspect that Up busses go TO the major terminal and you go FROM it on a DOWN service. So compass direction has nothing to do with it. You just need to know which is the major terminal :-). |
How to Read Shanghai Bus Stop Plate