"Dr Ivan D. Reid" typed


A bit more attention to keeping parked cars off busy streets might
help, too. For a while I travelled regularly on the 114 from Mill Hill
Broadway to Harrow-otH; the bus was continually being blocked by oncoming
traffic because parked cars made the road effectively one lane -- even on
one stretch where most houses had a garage, a front yard, and a driveway
crossing first a lawn, then a footpath, then even more lawn. If the streets
along the route had been no-parking zones during the hours I travelled, the
journey times would have been cut by 1/3 to 1/2.

Don't you just *love* Mollison Way?

You didn't mention the lamentable progress the buses made on the days
the bins were emptied, when things were even worse.

I too have commuted on that stretch of the 114 route.

--
Helen D. Vecht:
Edgware.

When it comes to believing what I read in "The Standard" or the
utterances of Ken Livingstone, I know which I prefer to believe!

What was it he once said about dehumanised morons wanting to get rid of
the Routemaster?

And he then makes that very same dehumanised moron (that is, unless he
was referring to himself), Peter Hendy-Bendy his Transport
Commissioner!

No doubt Mr. (presumably soon to be Sir) Peter Hendy-Bendy will be in
line for a Kiley-style 6-figure payoff when he eventually discovers he
can't work with Ken any longer and wants to end his contract early.

Marc.

On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 00:24:31 GMT, Helen Deborah Vecht
wrote in :
"Dr Ivan D. Reid" typed

A bit more attention to keeping parked cars off busy streets might
help, too. For a while I travelled regularly on the 114 from Mill Hill
Broadway to Harrow-otH; the bus was continually being blocked by oncoming
traffic because parked cars made the road effectively one lane -- even on
one stretch where most houses had a garage, a front yard, and a driveway
crossing first a lawn, then a footpath, then even more lawn. If the streets
along the route had been no-parking zones during the hours I travelled, the
journey times would have been cut by 1/3 to 1/2.

Don't you just *love* Mollison Way?

Ah, yes. I used to often get off at Burnt Oak to transfer to the
251; there was once a car abandoned in the bus bay, it just kept accumulating
a few more parking tickets every day...

You didn't mention the lamentable progress the buses made on the days
the bins were emptied, when things were even worse.

Fortunately I only commuted for less than two months, but I do
remember that disruption too, now that you mention it. Nowadays my only
congestion is waiting for a break in the traffic so I can cross Church Road
on my walk to work -- I think I'll petition for a pedestrian crossing. :-)

I too have commuted on that stretch of the 114 route.

--
Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. ] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
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