In message , Tom Barry
writes

Do roundabouts often have bus stops on? Not sure they do, really.
That's all Parliament Square is, really.

Shepherds Bush Green has a good selection of bus stops dotted around it.

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Paul Terry

In message , at 18:28:50
on Tue, 16 Jun 2009, remarked:
Bus stops are another matter altogether. I wouldn't know where to
find one on Parliament Square, for example.

Are there any? Maybe on the arm towards Broad Sanctuary but I can't think
of any others.

Precisely. And along with all the feeder roads it's a huge area to go
scouting for a bus stop only to find that the one you need is the other
side of the square. Whereas, if a bus was stopped at one of the many
sets of traffic lights, one could just hop on board.
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Roland Perry

Paul Terry wrote:
In message , Tom Barry
writes

Do roundabouts often have bus stops on? Not sure they do, really.
That's all Parliament Square is, really.

Shepherds Bush Green has a good selection of bus stops dotted around
it.

It's a large high street. Parliament Square is a small one way system with
no shops on it.

On 17 June, 08:44, Petert wrote:
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:02:45 -0700 (PDT), MIG

wrote:
I am in favour of being able to get off when I want to, although open
platforms aren't necessarily the best way of achieving it.

What do you suggest IS the best way then?
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Cheers

Peter

Er ... the way I suggested, but you cut?

In message , at 11:55:40 on Wed, 17 Jun
2009, Basil Jet remarked:
Do roundabouts often have bus stops on? Not sure they do, really.
That's all Parliament Square is, really.

Shepherds Bush Green has a good selection of bus stops dotted around
it.

It's a large high street. Parliament Square is a small one way system with
no shops on it.

The Parliamentary Bookshop is "on" the square, just. It's the corner
shop on the SE extremity.
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Roland Perry

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:28:45 -0700 (PDT), MIG
wrote:

On 17 June, 08:44, Petert wrote:
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:02:45 -0700 (PDT), MIG

wrote:
I am in favour of being able to get off when I want to, although open
platforms aren't necessarily the best way of achieving it.

What do you suggest IS the best way then?
--
Cheers

Peter

Er ... the way I suggested, but you cut?

I don't think that a driver being disrtracted by multiple requests to
open the doors so someone could jump off (and not on) should be
considered the best way.

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Cheers

Peter

On 17 June, 16:02, Petert wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:28:45 -0700 (PDT), MIG

wrote:
On 17 June, 08:44, Petert wrote:
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:02:45 -0700 (PDT), MIG

wrote:
I am in favour of being able to get off when I want to, although open
platforms aren't necessarily the best way of achieving it.

What do you suggest IS the best way then?
--
Cheers

Peter

Er ... the way I suggested, but you cut?

I don't think that a driver being disrtracted by multiple requests to
open the doors so someone could jump off (and not on) should be
considered the best way.

I don't think there would be any need for multiple requests. Either
the driver would do it spontaneously when in an obvious situation of
blockage, or else there would be one request (perhaps by dinging),
after which anyone who needed to get off would do so. Either way,
there would then be an opportunity to give suitable warnings and/or
spurn any really dangerous locations for opening the doors at, which a
permanently open platform wouldn't allow for.

"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote in
:

James Farrar wrote:

1,168,738 votes strikes me as quite a large justification.

ITYM 139,772 votes.

Eh?

That's the second round majority.

Ah, I see.

That has nothing to do with my point, which is why it confused me.

Tony Polson wrote in
:

For example, the Labour government is doing all it can to cling on to
power until it has to call an election, probably in June 2010. It is
not addressing the colossal hole in the public finances, preferring to
leave a substantially worse problem for the next government, which
Labour in all probability won't lead.

Presumably you support this stance?

False analogy, because the government isn't doing nothing. It's borrowing
money hand over fist (the PSBR figures are out in 20 minutes so we'll find
out how much).

On Jun 18, 9:07*am, James Farrar wrote:
1,168,738 votes strikes me as quite a large justification.

ITYM 139,772 votes.

Eh?

That's the second round majority.

Ah, I see.

That has nothing to do with my point, which is why it confused me.

Yes it does: to the extent to which you have a point, it's that
Boris's stupid decisions are justified by the fact that a lot of
people voted for him in the full knowledge that he'd make stupid
decisions.

But since more than a million people voted against him, the absolute
number of votes for him is irrelevant - the only thing you can cite as
'justification' is the margin by which he won.

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John Band
john at johnband dot org
www.johnband.org