On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:47:08 -0000, "John Rowland"
wrote:

I hear you, but the Brent Cross bus network stetches to Watford, Edmonton,
Finsbury Park, Hammersmith etc, and all of these buses currently get stuck
in the abysmal jams around Brent Cross at closing time.

Which suggests poor design of the bus infrastructure. Hamburg, for
instance, has traffic congestion like anywhere else, but the bus
infrastructure is provided such that it almost never affects the
service.

There are a lot of examples of such infrastructure, but the most
useful one is things like overtaking lanes at traffic lights, where if
a bus is approaching in the bus lane all other routes go to red and
the bus may turn in any direction necessary, including across other
traffic. There's one on the 73 route not far from Euston assisting
the buses turning right, but they are otherwise *very* rare in the UK.

Neil

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