On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:49:09PM +0100, Tom Anderson wrote:

The pedestrianisation of Oxford Street has been much discussed; the main
idea seems to be to split bus routes using it in two (terminating at new
bus stations at Marble Arch and St Giles's Circus, i suppose)

The St Giles's Circus one would have to be something other than what's
already there at Tottenham Court Road and at the back of Centre Point.
At certain times of day that all slows down because buses coming out from
under Centre Point have to merge into traffic going westbound along New
Oxford St, or cross that traffic to go east.

The routes crossing each other could perhaps be done away with if all
westbound traffic were to dogleg south and west around Centre Point
before turning north or south along Charing Cross Road, and anything
eastbound were to go west onto Charing Cross Road, north to the
junction, then east along New Oxford St (this assumes nothing's coming
out of Oxford St). Trouble is, there's not a lot of room around the
back of Centre Point for several buses on different routes to stop and
then move around each other, so you'll end up with a long queue of buses
waiting to get into the station just like sometimes happens at Victoria,
where Terminus Place being full will prevent any buses going into the
bus station itself, despite the bus station being empty.

Also there's not a great deal of space for the huge area that a bendy
bus needs to turn in.

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