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Too many bus stops in london?
Boltar wrote:
thoss wrote... writes Stuck in a traffic jam again this morning caused (surprise surprise) by a bus crawling along the road and stopping in the middle of it even when it could pull into the bus stop, I suddenly wondered why it was deemed necessary to have a bus stop every 200 hundred metres. Are the people who use the bus too bone idle to be able to walk more than the length of a football pitch to get to the stop? I take it you would be all in favour of the proposed West London Tram, because that would drastically cut down the number of stops along Uxbridge Road. It's one of the best arguments against the tram, IMHO. Would intersecting routes have more stops just off Uxbridge Road to compensate? Sounds like a good idea to me then. No doubt the nimbys in croydon said the same thing 5 years ago. They said a lot of things, but that wasn't one of them. Lets turn your argument on its head however and see how it sounds - you have a nice fast tram service and someone comes along and says "we're going to replace it with a slow bus that stops every 200 / 400 metres so lazy people don't have to walk so far. 'Tis not that simple, as Uxbridge Road currently has the limited stop 607 as well as the 207. What do you think? Good idea?" I'm sure they'd be oh so popular. A couple of years ago there was a proposal to install more stops in Hurst Road between Station Road (Sidcup) and FootsCray Lane. This mile was formerly part of (limited stop) route 726, so there were only three stops - one at the end and one in front of each of two schools. The plan was fiercely opposed by NIMBYs who didn't want a bus stop in front of their house. However, the real mystery is why TfL wanted more stops there, as the absence of sidestreets and the presence of stops on the end roads meant that nobody in the area was more than about 500m from a stop anyway. I don't know what the eventual outcome was. |
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