Peter Smyth wrote:
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There is now a long-term diversion of various London bus routes due to
the closure of Battersea Bridge for the foreseeable future, since it
was rammed last week by the M/V James Prior.

The routes involved include 49 and 239, now using Wandsworth Bridge.
Not only are these buses (and other traffic of course) now clogging up
the already clogged streets of Fulham (especially Wandsworth Bridge
Road), but the glee that the drivers are taking in refusing to pick up
any passengers on the diverted route is obscene. If ever there was
exemplicication of the sadism of certain bus drivers this is it. I hope
that their consciences allow them to rest easy at night.

I suspect that if bus drivers are not stopping on the diverted route it is
because they have been told not to rather than to deliberately annoy you.
Indeed it makes sense not to add even more time on to an already extended
journey to pick up people at every stop on the way.

Indeed - the diversion must add about half an hour to the journey in
peak periods. I wonder why they haven't diverted them via Chelsea Bridge
instead - it's much shorter.


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