"Mizter T" wrote in message
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On May 28, 8:52 pm, Christopher Griffin wrote:

Phil Richards wrote:
We are in the process of buying a house in Walthamstow on the W19
route.
Having done plenty of Google Street Viewing etc. to "explore" the
area I
am curious as to how the W19 bus makes its way to the end of the
route
in the industrial areas around Argall Avenue. Have a look at:

http://tinyurl.com/kp67z8

And you'll see the bus stops yet no apparent connection between
from
South Access Road. Zooming as far as you can with satellite view
shows
the route blocked off.

Any ideas?

If you go back a bit, you'll see there's a route through the
council's
refuse disposal site. The entrance is just opposite the playing
fields
in South Access Road.

There's a similar arrangement on a bus route that goes through
Newham,
near the North Circular in East Ham.

Aha, mystery solved! There are a set of barriers at a point on that
'road' through the council's which will prevent it being used as a
rat-
run, as only legit vehicles will be allowed to pass. I managed to get
a bus to show up on the road on the "Bird's eye view" on
maps.live.com, but I can't seem to replicate that at the moment -
anyway that shows the route well (far better than Google Maps and it's
Street View function).

OK, so there's an example of some sort of similar arrangement
somewhere in East Ham - anyone any idea of what that is and how that
works?

This is the 323 from Mile End to Canning Town which passes through an
industrial estate just east of Bromley-by-Bow station.

Peter Smyth