Kat wrote:

In message , Redonda
writes
Kat wrote:
In message , Robert
Woolley writes
Well, you'll be glad to hear that Route 25 will receive articulated
buses in 2004 - which should help solve the crowding problems....

Do you mean the bendy-buses?
Now that will be interesting when they come three in a row and stretch
all the way to Bow..
BTW, does anyone know why the count-down thing was removed from the
bus-stop outside Mile End tube station?

According to the local paper they were removed because people were
complaining about the times for the next bus actually going backwards
because of delays on Bow Road.

Seems odd that people would rather have no information at all.

Seems even odder that TfL/Bus companies would rather remove the
provision of information than try to do something about the underlying
problem...

(Actually, that's not odd at all!)



Like I said there can be up to an hour
between buses and bendy-buses aren't going to fix that - a boot up the
backside of the bus company might though!

The bit from Bow Flyover to Bow Road station is a real bottle neck;
stopping people parking just before the bridge (and the turning into
Southern Grove) might help too...
--
Kat "bears, said the taxi driver, is sixpence extra,
sticky bears is ninepence"

Dave Newt wrote the
following in:



Kat wrote:

In message , Redonda
writes

According to the local paper they were removed because people
were complaining about the times for the next bus actually going
backwards because of delays on Bow Road.

Seems odd that people would rather have no information at all.

Seems even odder that TfL/Bus companies would rather remove the
provision of information than try to do something about the
underlying problem...

What exactly do you suggest doing about the underlying problem? Banning
cars from Bow Road?

--
message by Robin May, but you can call me Mr Smith.
Enjoy the Routemaster while you still can.

"Handlebar catch and nipple."

In message , Robin May
writes
Dave Newt wrote the
following in:



Kat wrote:

In message , Redonda
writes

According to the local paper they were removed because people
were complaining about the times for the next bus actually going
backwards because of delays on Bow Road.

Seems odd that people would rather have no information at all.

Seems even odder that TfL/Bus companies would rather remove the
provision of information than try to do something about the
underlying problem...

What exactly do you suggest doing about the underlying problem? Banning
cars from Bow Road?

Yes please.... except mine of course (and I suppose emergency vehicles
can be allowed too.)
--
Kat "bears, said the taxi driver, is sixpence extra,
sticky bears is ninepence"