John Rowland wrote:

"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.)

Some months ago, a driver on the 241 had to ask us passengers how to traverse
the narrow streets of the Keir Hardie estate after leaving Canning Town.
Eventually we reached the Victoria Dock Road at Royal Albert DLR!