On 24/07/2016 10:35, Offramp wrote:
The area around Aldwych is really pretty, those three huge islands from St Clement's down to the hotel that used to be Bush House. I really like to visit Somerset House, especially with the kids.

There is a problem with the area though. If you are at Somerset House and you want to go to Trafalgar Square you need bust stop R 76996 which is near the end of St Mary's. The trouble is, 8 buses stop here in the daytime, and they are all pretty regular. Most of them go up Kingsway. These buses also get mixed up with the 13 (count them!) buses that use the nearby stop S 55244.

There is chronic third bus syndrome sellotaped to buses having to go completely around the stops because there is no room. Now that Borisbuses are escape-proof there is no way to leap onto them in the road.

The whole area hasn't been the same since old Leather-Arse died.


This seems to me to be a case on behalf of those:

(a) who are willing and able to leap onto a bus in the middle of the
Strand (often busy with cyclists and motorcyclists as well as other
traffic); but

(b) unwilling or unable to walk half a mile from Somerset House to
Trafalgar Square (or 0.3 mile to stop J at Bedford Street - 71636).

Good luck if you want to pursue that under the Equality Act Though I
fear in these risk-averse days you might meet some push back from social
services if you encouraged your kids to dodge through traffic to make
heroic grabs for moving poles



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