On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 05:40:02PM +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Fri, 16 May 2008, David Cantrell wrote:
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 07:18:06PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
While that seems like a rant, taxis stopping in bus lanes are a *real*
problem.
They're nothing like as much of a problem as delivery vans and lorries
parking in them. At least the cab will move off again very shortly, but
the lorry might be there for an hour or more.
Yes, it'll get a ticket. The driver doesn't care because his employer
accepts that as just a cost of doing business and just pays out. The
employer doesn't care because his customers are happy to eat the cost.
Good, if depressing, point. So, we start issuing points for parking
violations by commercial vehicle drivers, then?

Or have a sliding scale that makes a single violation, like what normal
people might do occasionally, annoyingly expensive but tolerable, but
for repeated violations (either on seperate days, or by seperate
vehicles with the same owner) something that'll make the delivery
companies' customers say "no thanks, you can deliver at 2am instead when
you won't **** the buses up".

I think it's time London got a Singapore-style "taxi stop"
system in place on Red Routes and anywhere else with bus lanes.
The whole point of a taxi is that you can pick one up anywhere without
having to find a bus stop.
Which is great, as long as it doesn't interfere with the huge numbers of
people who could be bothered to find a bus stop getting where they want to
go. Which is why bus lanes were mentioned.

But taxis are nowhere near being the top cause of bus delays anyway.

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