On May 28, 8:52*pm, Christopher Griffin wrote:

Phil Richards wrote:
We are in the process of buying a house in Walthamstow on the W19 route..
Having done plenty of Google Street Viewing etc. to "explore" the area I
am curious as to how the W19 bus makes its way to the end of the route
in the industrial areas around Argall Avenue. Have a look at:

http://tinyurl.com/kp67z8

And you'll see the bus stops yet no apparent connection between from
South Access Road. Zooming as far as you can with satellite view shows
the route blocked off.

Any ideas?

If you go back a bit, you'll see there's a route through the council's
refuse disposal site. *The entrance is just opposite the playing fields
in South Access Road.

There's a similar arrangement on a bus route that goes through Newham,
near the North Circular in East Ham.

Aha, mystery solved! There are a set of barriers at a point on that
'road' through the council's which will prevent it being used as a rat-
run, as only legit vehicles will be allowed to pass. I managed to get
a bus to show up on the road on the "Bird's eye view" on
maps.live.com, but I can't seem to replicate that at the moment -
anyway that shows the route well (far better than Google Maps and it's
Street View function).

OK, so there's an example of some sort of similar arrangement
somewhere in East Ham - anyone any idea of what that is and how that
works?

Also, where else are there such arrangements? I can think of the
barrier at the Chelsea Harbour complex on Harbour Road (which leads
between Lots Road and Townmead Rd/ Imperial Rd) in Chelsea/ Sand's
End, it's right underneath the bridge that carries the West London
Line. You can get through if you're a permit holder (presumably that
essentially equates to residents), a cabbie or are driving/on the
route C3 bus.

I'm sure I'm missing something really obvious. There was a "bus
gate" (as the sign called it) at the western tip of Great Tower Street
at the junction with Byward Street for westbound traffic only, as said
traffic is only supposed to be buses as it's a bus lane only in this
direction (the route 15 goes this way). However I'm not to sure this
gate still exists, as it doesn't appear to be visible on Street View -
perhaps policing it by CCTV suffices. But anyway I was thinking more
about buses that have to pass barriers on non-public streets.