"Mark Brader" wrote in message
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John Rowland:

Since double-decker buses aren't the easiest things
to turn around, except at authorised turnarounds

They aren't? Wouldn't it just be a matter of going
"around the block" via suitable side streets?

Yes, but most side streets and corners here aren't suitable. Whenever a bus
route is introduced on a previously unserved road or around a previously
unskirted corner, an "infrastructure test" is performed, and it would be a
foolish bus driver who took his bus down a random street or around a random
corner. (That wasn't a dig at a certain bus driver who posts on this
group... alright, maybe it was.)

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