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Old February 10th 05, 06:16 PM posted to uk.transport.london
Ashley Brown Ashley Brown is offline
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Default Buses on Exhibition Road

Does anyone have any info or speculation on what buses might run along
Exhibition Road and how well that might work given the proposed plans?
http://www.alwaystouchout.com/project/110 might be useful as a bit of
shameless self-promotion.


They'll introduce buses once they've removed the street furniture, in an
effort to kill off even more students. Even better, stick bendies on it
and they can kill cycling students as well... K&C presumably don't like
all these students dropping their council tax income .

I can see the present routes down Queen's Gate being diverted to
Exhibition Road, particularly as K&C and Westminster repainted the bus
stops on Queen's Gate with parking spaces a while ago[1]. If they
introduced buses after removing street furniture, the former pavements
on Ex. Road would probably become parking spaces, leaving plenty of room
for bus stops[2].

The 70 drops me off right where I want to be at the moment, so I hope
they don't reroute that!

Is Queen's Gate - Prince Consort Road - Ex. Road viable? An extra stop
outside the Royal Albert Hall as well perhaps?

[1] Sadly, the bus stop flag outside Huxley building is also behind a
tree, so new Thorpes drivers tend to go sailing past then slam on the
brakes a bit down the road after shouts of "Oi mate, stop!" and "'Ang on
mate, you missed one!".

[2] Removing pavements seems to free up an awful lot more room for
parking spaces... Just a thought.

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Ashley