On Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:55:38 +0000
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 12:26:16 on Wed, 2 Feb
2011, d remarked:
I lived near nottingham for a few years and while the buses are fine on the
outskirts, once they get near the city centre things tended to slow down.
And thats the problem with any street based transport - buses or trams. They
get stuck.
The Derby Road can be bad, but there are extensive bus priority measures
to most of the main bus routes into the City, including many roads that
are in effect bus only (ie not just bus lanes).
My experience dates from the 90s so its probably well out of date. I've been
there many times since but I've not used the buses.
Of course traffic isn't the only problem with buses - having a stop every
200m or so would lead to a slow service even if there was no other traffic
on the road. Where there is usually free flowing traffic bus stops should be
a lot further apart and those routes which don't have stops but people just
stick their hand out to stop the bus (I'm thinking london now) and ring the
bell to stop the bus are a bloody pain.
Traffic (especially through traffic) is excluded from much of the
on-road running sections, and I've never seen a tram caught in a jam.
Perhaps nottingham was bad example then. But certainly trams do get caught
in traffic in other cities.
B2003