Conductor in Charge of.......... wrote:

Well don't forget there is a nice big chunk of the bypass taken up with
bus lanes so that will not help traffic much!

I'm not a great fan of bus lanes anyway; they have to start somewhere,
and usually that involves a reduction in the width of the road
available for other traffic, and therefore a tailback at that point in
which all traffic, including the buses, gets caught up. Most of the
bus lane itself is empty, and a waste of road space.

What is the point of a bus lane on the bypass? Surely the buses need
to serve the stops on the main road, which would be bypassed. The
three routes which I can use, 60, 405 and 166 all still go that way.
The only one of these which could, in theory, use the bypass would be
the 405, but then it wouldn't serve my stop, and I wouldn't be happy.
The only other use I could see for a bus lane would seem to be for the
National Express coaches, but there are so few of them that would be an
even bigger waste of space. Am I missing something?

This morning the concestion did seem better than yesterday, but I don't
think much better than usual; there were still considerable delays at
the new north junction traffic signals. So far I'm not too impressed
for, £33 million was it?