On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 00:24:31 GMT, Helen Deborah Vecht
wrote in :
"Dr Ivan D. Reid" typed

A bit more attention to keeping parked cars off busy streets might
help, too. For a while I travelled regularly on the 114 from Mill Hill
Broadway to Harrow-otH; the bus was continually being blocked by oncoming
traffic because parked cars made the road effectively one lane -- even on
one stretch where most houses had a garage, a front yard, and a driveway
crossing first a lawn, then a footpath, then even more lawn. If the streets
along the route had been no-parking zones during the hours I travelled, the
journey times would have been cut by 1/3 to 1/2.

Don't you just *love* Mollison Way?

Ah, yes. I used to often get off at Burnt Oak to transfer to the
251; there was once a car abandoned in the bus bay, it just kept accumulating
a few more parking tickets every day...

You didn't mention the lamentable progress the buses made on the days
the bins were emptied, when things were even worse.

Fortunately I only commuted for less than two months, but I do
remember that disruption too, now that you mention it. Nowadays my only
congestion is waiting for a break in the traffic so I can cross Church Road
on my walk to work -- I think I'll petition for a pedestrian crossing. :-)

I too have commuted on that stretch of the 114 route.

--
Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. ] Room 40-1-B12, CERN
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".