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Greenwich Waterfront Transit - campaign against
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, James Farrar wrote:
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:47:16 +0100, Bearded wrote: A lot of people living here commute into Central London or Canary Wharf - and many of us want to use the JLE from N Greenwich. Sadly, that involves a local bus [244 or 380], then change to a high frequency service such as 422 or 472 either at Plumstead Garage or Woolwich town centre. All these routes are packed in the rush hour, including lots of mums with buggies who frequently ignore driver requests to fold - and trust me, 3 or 4 buggies on a bus which is already at capacity ain't pretty. Sometimes changing to the 422/472 means letting 2 or 3 full buses pass before you can board. The answer to our prayers is the Greenwich Waterfront Transit - with dedicated busways or bus lanes linking N Greenwich / Charlton / Woolwich / West Thamesmead and Thamesmead. So the solution to packed buses is... packed buses. Great. I think the plan is that the new buses will not be packed, due to being more frequent, due to having dedicated routes. Yes, a tram or railway would be better. But we won't see the money for that any time soon. tom -- VTEC Just Kicked in, Yo!! |
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Greenwich Waterfront Transit - campaign against
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:47:55 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, James Farrar wrote: On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:47:16 +0100, Bearded wrote: A lot of people living here commute into Central London or Canary Wharf - and many of us want to use the JLE from N Greenwich. Sadly, that involves a local bus [244 or 380], then change to a high frequency service such as 422 or 472 either at Plumstead Garage or Woolwich town centre. All these routes are packed in the rush hour, including lots of mums with buggies who frequently ignore driver requests to fold - and trust me, 3 or 4 buggies on a bus which is already at capacity ain't pretty. Sometimes changing to the 422/472 means letting 2 or 3 full buses pass before you can board. The answer to our prayers is the Greenwich Waterfront Transit - with dedicated busways or bus lanes linking N Greenwich / Charlton / Woolwich / West Thamesmead and Thamesmead. So the solution to packed buses is... packed buses. Great. I think the plan is that the new buses will not be packed, due to being more frequent, due to having dedicated routes. Yes, I'm sure that is the plan. |
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