London Banter - View Single Post - Route 73

Colin Rosenstiel · May 22nd 05, 07:44 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Colin McKenzie) wrote:

For occupants, maybe - fewer falls from platforms. The jury's still
out on their effects on cyclists and motorcyclists.

As a cyclist on Euston Road between King's Cross station and Judd Street I
find the bendies on the 73 such a nightmare that I slip off under Camden
Town Hall into the back streets if I see one ahead of me.

On a bike you can't pass a bendy at a stop because they are twice as long
as a Routemaster. By the time you get to the front of one it starts off.
Also, with three doors you can't pass it on the nearside (preferred in the
above case because I'm turning left just after the stop) anything like as
easily as a Routemaster either.

Luckily the 73 is so infrequent these days I don't often have the problem.

Of the 453s I see in Whitehall, half seem to have a blinds problem which
means they are displaying route N453 at the rear.

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Colin Rosenstiel