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Old February 11th 08, 02:05 PM posted to uk.transport.london
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Default Harrow Bus Station bottleneck

On Feb 9, 11:43 am, Andy wrote:
There seem to be at least three car parks within 5 mins walk of the
bus station. College Road get blocked up because buses have to fight
with cars coming out of said car parks, not because there are too many
buses.


Buses have to be taken out of the Station to park them as far away as
St George's Shopping Mall. At times there are 5 buses are seen parked.
This clearly shows that Station Space is not adequate.
Buses have to enter the Station from Kimberly Road side and no Cars
coming out of or going in 3 car parks come in the way.

And surely the point of a bus station is that every bus calls there
and so makes changing between routes easy.


If buses going one way continue to stop at the Bus Station and those
going in opposite direction can stop on the Hill side of tube station,
the area that is used for Buses on Rail Replacement Service.

No one changing a bus will be inconvenienced.

People coming for shopping from one direction get off at St George's
sto and those coming from opposite direction get off on station road
between Iceland Store and Barclay's Bank. In fact this point is used
for changing buses.

Harrowbus station is also
in a good place for the shopping centers. Station Road would not be
nearly so convenient, for eitherHarrow-on-the-Hill station nor most
of the shops

I personally find thatHarrowBus station works quite well with easy
connections to the Metropolitan line.


Passengers from Hill side, particularly the old people, have to climb
up and down the stairs of tube station to access the Bus Station. With
2nd part of the Bus Station becoming active on the Hill side those
passengers will be saved from unnecessary trouble.

By the way nobody coming to any of the shopping areas get down at Bus
station. Besides St George's Shopping Mall they get down on either on
Green Hill way or on Station Road.

In fact if Ramps are provided for people travelling on tube station to
come out into the Bus Station or in the St. Ann's shopping mall there
will be much freer movement of vehicular traffic on College Road.

I got the feeling that tfl andHarrowCouncil do not wish to make any
change anywhere. They wish to solve the problem with expensive,
unrealistic, 10 years from now strategy. Components of which are, make
one way Station Road section two way, build over-bridge onHarrowTube
station for which they have no money.