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Captain Brittles wrote:Here in the name of 'improving' the bus service travelling times, officialdom in its whacky wisdom decided that the bus drivers need not attempt to pull over to uplift and allow passengers to alight, they need now only stop at the new custom built stops which protrude out into the carriageway - in front of all following traffic thereby by (as Apollo says) stop everybody.
Apollo wrote:The Captain will know these two: the wide road along Bannerman school, had 2 large islands installed years ago. I don't know the effect (on accident rates), but watching it at busy times, they appear to either cause all traffic to come to a halt when buses stop, or entice impatient drivers to nip ahead of buses.
Second, the island added at the Sherwood Garage, narrowing the road to less than 2 lanes, again bringing a main road to a halt when traffic wishes to turn right
As I said earlier in this thread, our entire system is unsustainable. The cosy convenient, but costly, car-travel to work, school and leisure system that Strike Team describes, is the one that is increasingly taking us into an unsustainable and eventually unstable system. The only even likely scenario that could alleviate (not cure) this path to crisis is a significant, sustained and comprehensive shift in public investment and public policy away from private car facilities and onto public transport. By significant, I mean providing a public transport system that is so dependable, safe, clean and affordable that middle class (car-owning) people will actually be willing to use it in preference to their cars for at least most of their routine commuting journeys. What a long way we are from that.
Joan Burnie wrote:How many of you live or work [don’t work] in the area? Mostly none I assume you all live Southside or Westend in comfort.
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