Dr Zoidberg wrote:
"Depresion" 127.0.0.1 wrote in message
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I dont know if it is related to the economic situation but recently I
have found that a lot more buses are waiting time at bus stops. Is
this strictly speaking legal. They load up then wait for about a
minute before moving off delaying the traffic behind. Maybe there are
more buses running early as there is less traffic on the road but are
they allowed to just stop at a bus stop.

It would be better if they just kept on going. If they get to their
destination early then maybe the timetable needs changing rather than
hogging the road for no good reason.

There is a simple solution, force bus companies to install bus stops
that are 100% out of traffic flow and ban them from stopping where
they don't.

Bus companies don't have the right to build laybys wherever they need a
stop and on many routes there wouldn't be any place to put them , or
alternative locations to use

Some cities have even deliberately filled in bus lay-bys just to make
congestion worse, so that they can then blame the car user for ensuing
chaos. Also, as bus drivers are disciplined for leaving a stop early, I
don't really think that they'll want to put their job on the line by
disobeying company instructions. After all, if the traffic commissioners
get to hear of it, the bus company can then be heavily fined and forced,
in some cases, to take some of their buses off the road as a further
"punishment"!

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