On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 05:39:18 GMT, Neil Williams
wrote in :
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 00:27:01 +0100, Fig wrote:

Unless you mean that each route should
have their own exclusive stops just a few meters from each other. But then
the whole street would be one massive bus stop with no room to park cars.

It doesn't necessarily need to be each route - you can group some
together that have common sections and are infrequent enough to avoid
the problem.

We have that here, but imperfectly. Outside Tesco in Uxbridge
there's one stop for, inter alia, the U5 and another further down the
street that serves the U1 and U3. Neither are request stops. Especially
when the U5 first started, the drivers would turn into the street and
then see how fast they could accelerate past the stop... Problem is that
I and a lot of other people can use either the U3 or the U5 (and for a few
of us the U1 as well) so we wait midway between the two stops. There's
about enough time to get to the U3 stop from first sighting the bus, but if
the U5 driver's hell-bent on not stopping there's no way to get to the
stop in time to hail the bus.

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