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January 3rd 17, 03:24 PM
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RIP Boris Bus
On Tue, 3 Jan 2017 16:11:43 +0000
Someone Somewhere wrote: On 03/01/2017 15:31, d wrote: So treat them like an HGV. Problem solved. They have them all over europe without thousands of dead cyclists littering the roads. As someone who has taken a pushchair on a double decker on number of occasions its a fecking nightmare - half the bus is out of bounds. God knows what the disabled think of the bloody things. Quite why we're so wedded to having 2 storey vehicles in this country is anyones guess. Wasn't the problem more (from my experience) that the road design in London is unsuited to large numbers of such long vehicles - ie the distance between traffic lights and other obstacles to road progress was not a reasonable multiple of bendies long so if (when!) the service bunched up or many routes served a road then they caused more congestion than would reasonably be expected or presented an impediment to progress - whether that be themselves, other motorists or pedestrians. Possibly. OTOH they carried ~150 passengers compared to about 80 on a DD and they weren't close to being twice as long, so they carried more passengers per metre of road space used. That, allied to their reputation as a "free bus" and the consequential crush loading on certain services (25 anyone?), was what made them More random ticket inspections would have sorted that problem. You don't get mass fare evasion on the gateless DLR because they do frequent checks. But of course that means hiring people and TfL don't like doing that. Unless its for management positions of course. undesirable than the supposed risk to cyclists (which was unproven) and Quite so. Just lots of lycra louts whining when they found out that riding up the inside of an articulated vehicle turning left turned out to be a bad idea. Who knew? (Well, everyone with some basic common sense which excludes a lot of cyclists it seems). their flammability (which was fixed and never caused an injury anyway). And a lot of them ended up happily working in the heat in Malta. Ironic. -- Spud |
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