On Thu, 4 Feb 2010, Paul Corfield wrote:

On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 12:40:26 -0000, "Zen83237"
wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8497509.stm

Oxford St is congested so let's remove all the buses. What next, Victoria is
congested let's remove the trains.

These proposals, always heavily supported by the retailers, to remove
buses from Oxford St are just stupid. If the retailers don't want
public transport in front of their shops then I suggest TfL takes them
at their word and removes all the bus services from Oxford Street and
Regent Street and for good measure immediately shuts all the local tube
stations and scraps the proposed Crossrail stations. That would save
billions at a stroke.

You're just being silly. The problem with the buses is that they're taking
up space but not doing anything useful - it's faster to get off at one end
of Oxford Street and walk the rest of the way than to ride a bus along it.
The trains are taking up space but work very effectively. It's a totally
different situation.

This idea is not anti-bus or anti-PT. If services could be changed so
fewer buses ran along Oxford street, they could run faster, and the
service could actually be improved.

The fact that Oxford St and Regent Street would no longer cease to
function is not TfL's problem.

I think if it no longer ceased to function, everyone would be rather
happy!

tom

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