James Looker wrote:
Dave Arquati wrote:

Richard Adamfi wrote:

What do you think of the new advert?

Richard Adamfi




For anyone who hasn't seen it, if you have a fast connection you can
see it from he
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/buses/press-re...n%201214.shtml


Nicely done. But I'm not convinced it will persuade suburbanites to
leave their cars at home. And I rarely see a bus lane work as well as
the one in the video - in central London your journey is as likely to
be held up by other buses and taxis as it is by cars! Do many suburban
routes have all-day bus lanes?

Buses are shocking forms of transport, dirty, getting more exspensive
all the time and total crap in outer London. I teach in S Croydon and
commute from Grove Park, near Bromley. A bus journey would tkae a ten
minute walk to the correct bus stop this end, then at least two buses to
the other end before another ten minute walk - A 25 - 30 minute journey
in my car becomes well over an hour by bus. No thanks.

I certainly wouldn't go to that end of the scale, as I use buses all the
time - cheaper than the Tube and the journey is more interesting. £9.50
per week is hardly expensive; how much does your car cost to run? The
buses I use are certainly never dirty either; they're remarkably clean,
certainly more so than the ones I use sometimes in High Wycombe which
have many fewer passengers using them.

Obviously buses aren't for everyone. I think that advert is encouraging
their use to your local town centre, rather than an out-of-town-centre
home to an out-of-town-centre workplace. I just wasn't convinced of the
depiction of a perfectly-working bus lane.

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Dave Arquati
Imperial College, SW7
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London