"Neil Williams" wrote in message
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:45:53 -0800 (PST), Mizter T

2. Giving the bus the right to change traffic lights in its favour.

TfL did a lot of experimenting with this, and I'm not sure what happened.
Where I work did some tests too and while they worked it was never rolled
out for some reason.

The Microwave sources on the tops of the lights, and now little boxes with
aerials are linked back into the local control unit, when a vaild coded
signal is recieved it triggers a cycle in favour of the lamp recieving the
signal.

6. Removing known-problem zebra crossings and replacing with
signalised crossings. In the height of the peak, you'd cut 5 minutes
at least off a journey on the 15 if that crossing at St Pauls was to
be removed and replaced with a proper crossing.

Yes! in the days of having to use the 26 when there was no WL&C line it was
the single biggest delay on the route most mornings...

9. Better enforcement - having a wheel in the bus lane should be
considered an offence, as that's normally enough to delay the bus.

Enforcement is quite good, but only where you have CCTV enforcement - and
there is always going to be someone who has been 'pushed' over the line by a
truck or something. I'll let others debate enforcement