In message , at 18:21:20 on
Sat, 2 Jul 2011, Basil Jet remarked:
They seem to be removing the bus contraflow on the East side of
Russell Square so it becomes a normal gyratory. At least that's what it
looked like the interminable roadworks were aimed at last time I was there
last month.

I was there about 12 hours ago. The east side is now two lanes
southbound (open) and two lanes northbound (coned off, but painted and
very nearly ready)

That's pretty much the same as when I was there in April. Fast work, eh?

A similar "three sides round a block" traffic system has recently been
restored to a normal two-way road (again on the east side) in central
Nottingham.
--
Roland Perry

We might be lucky.

I went to look at it yesterday and found that it was primarily a Westminster Council scheme. Consequently no new sets of traffic lights have been installed in either St. James Street or Pall Mall: only a new zebra crossing. (If St. James Street and Pall Mall were Red Routes, TfL would have installed traffic lights every 25 yards)

I'm still sceptical but I'll reserve judgement. Westminster Council is pretty good at managing traffic.

"Neil Williams" wrote in message
.net...
On Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:55:59 +0000 (UTC), Nick Leverton
wrote:
Surely the solution is clear: fit the bendybuses with a driving
position
at each end, guided by flanged wheels on a steel bar (or two) of
some
sort ?

There is a publicity shot re the Luton busway that consists of a bus
parked on the railway, looking rather like a new generation low floor
Pacer...

The REAL solution is the replace the bendy bit in the middle with an
accordion that plays jolly tunes as it goes round corners (as they should
have done in the first place), then sell the lot to a theme park.
--
Brian
"Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman."
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