At 20:46:25 on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 Paul Corfield opined:-

I'm also struggling with the hail and ride
proposals because I think that the accessibility issues and the proposed
solutions will result in the de facto abolition of hail and ride. I'd
prefer that TfL just said that rather than pretend they and the highway
authorities can comply with the legislation and still have hail and ride
services. I use a few routes that are hail and ride and I think the
concept is very good and very convenient and I'd hate to see it go
because the people who value it most (often old people) would suffer
through the introduction of facilities that are apparently for their
benefit (fixed accessible boarding points but with a longer walk to
them).

There's a local stretch of road which is hail-and-raid because the
residents didn't want anything as vulgar as bus-stops on their road.
--
Thoss