On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 14:06:32 +0000, John Ray wrote:
On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:29:06 +0000, Paul Corfield
wrote:

Some are on narrowish roads but many are not and the
only issue would be stop locations where people have drives in front
of their homes.

A few years ago some routes were "hail and ride", i.e. there were
sections of route without fixed bus stops, but as far as I am aware
these no longer exist. Was this an experiment which was judged to have
failed?

There are lots of Hail & Ride sections around. They
are shown in red on the quadrant maps, for example
http://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-...on-bus-map.pdf