Terry Harper wrote:
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:10:06 GMT, "d" wrote:

So people travelling to Victoria from North London have to change busses
twice on one street? Marvellous idea

Of course not. You route the buses along parallel roads, with a lot
less congestion. You just don't send them nose to tail along Oxford
Street, taking far longer than walking to traverse the street.

True - although they have to be routed onto several parallel streets for
that to work (i.e. not just shifting the bus jam onto another street).
Parallel roads are available for the western part of Oxford St (Wigmore
St, Brook St) but are a bit more difficult for the eastern part. Buses
that currently serve St Giles Circus will either go round a circuitous
route, miss St Giles entirely, or miss other key stops like Oxford
Circus. Then again, it depends whether they remove buses from all of
Oxford St or just the western part.

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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London