On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:03:10 +0100, asdf
wrote:

IMX (again) hail and ride sections in London are in residential areas
with very low traffic volumes. I don't think there'd be much of a
problem with blocking a junction for a few seconds.

There wouldn't, if car and van drivers were sensible. Unfortunately
they're not, so they don't wait for the bus to move on and instead
make dangerous manoeuvres to get round it.

I'm entirely willing to accept that the London driver is different,
but I doubt it, and hail and ride has proven such an abject failure in
Milton Keynes that it is the Council's policy to progressively remove
it and replace with fixed stops.

Neil

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On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 11:09:49 +0100, "Ivor Jones"
wrote:


"Bill Hayles" wrote in message


I never heard of any visits from said gentlemen in all
the time I was driving buses.

They have been known to do blitzes in the Birmingham area, i.e. lay in
wait at an outer terminus (one of the favourites is South Parade, in
Sutton Coldfield) and check *everything* that arrives for several hours.

I've had them a couple of times, but they never found anything wrong.

If they had waited at some of our outer termini and checked everything
that arrived over several hours, they may have well checked one, or even
two buses.

Only one of our routes had a frequency of more than one bus an hour.


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Bill Hayles

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