On 04/07/2010 15:44, Neil Williams wrote:

What I think is required for taxis etc is a bit of an infrastructure
change. It causes serious problems when taxis stop in bus lanes and
on Red Routes to load/unload. I would therefore propose that this is
prohibited, thus requiring the taxis to use appropriate side streets,
and that additional "taxi stop" laybys are built at locations where
there is a large demand for boarding and alighting taxis.

Taxis very rarely hold up buses in bus lanes because they are usually
behind them instead of in front of them. They are more likely to hold up
buses by stopping too near to an island on a road which does not have
bus lanes.