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[email protected] · March 3rd 16, 12:04 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , d () wrote:

On Thu, 3 Mar 2016 11:26:36 +0000
Neil Williams wrote:
On 2016-03-03 10:53:48 +0000, d said:

They certainly can be cavalier with the rules of the road. Whether
they're have a big effect on buses on oxford street I don't know. I
suspect the main issue is the sheer number of buses themselves. Far too
many routes going down one street.

Agreed there. The other aspect of the German approach is that there
are very rarely duplications of routes.

People happily change trains on the Tube, it's normal practice, even
though they have to walk far further than between two adjacent bus
stops when they do. If we packed in the archaic practice of
deprecating the changing of buses by charging a double fare when you
do, we could design a central London bus network that complemented the
Tube and was comprehensive and simple to understand.

Would be easy - though costly - to implement too. Have a touch out
reader on the bus for people wanting to interchange to a different
route then have a timeout of say 30 mins for them to get the next bus.

Support Caroline Pigeon for Mayor. She's been calling for a 1 hour bus
ticket for at least 4 years. Do any other countries not have tickets which
can be transferred?

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Colin Rosenstiel