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Old January 17th 12, 10:36 AM posted to uk.transport.london
David Cantrell David Cantrell is offline
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Default Farewell To The Bendy Bus

On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 01:31:29PM +0000, d wrote:
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:18:44 +0000
David Cantrell wrote:
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:10:25PM +0000,
d wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:13:46 +0000
David Cantrell wrote:
Our bendy bus driver is waiting at the lights, they turn green, but
there isn't enough room in his desired direction for him to clear the
junction. So he waits. By the time the lights turn red there was
*some* room, but not enough, so he goes nowhere. Then the lights go
green in the other direction, and what space had formed gets filled with
other vehicles. Such as a normal bus, perhaps. Repeat ad infinitum.
Makes you wonder how any of the thousands of HGVs all over the country ever
make any progress doesn't it.

You may have noticed that very few of the biggest ones go into central
London.

But bendy buses weren't restricted to cental london. Some routes went out
into the burbs where you'll find a lot of HGVs. So what was the rationale
in getting rid of them from there?


Getting rid of them makes less sense there, unless the route goes from
suburbia to the centre.

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