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Boris admits bendy-buses are safe - but he'll axe them anyway
On Oct 22, 8:20*am, MIG wrote:
On Oct 22, 1:13*am, wrote: In article , (John B) wrote: I hate bendies because they are just too long to mix with other traffic. Based on what evidence? Trying to get along Euston Road from King's Cross station to turn left into Judd Street before and after the 73 became a bendy route. Observation of the Cambridge Circus junction. And experience of a whole load of other blocked junctions, blocked crossings and uncomfortable journeys. Its a fair point, but how is that going to improve when they have to run 40% more buses to get even vaguely the same capacity on the routes? Well the comparison point is the non-bendy routes that people use, which generally are more pleasant. The mistake is to think that the bendy routes would suddenly be more pleasant if only they were converted to double decker, which as you say, is not the case. This to me is the pertinent point that always seems to get lost in the noise of the London Rags. The majority of REGULAR commuters who use the bendy routes (a group that includes my Missus who uses the 38) are, in my experience, more than happy with them and dreading the inevitable change. They may not be perfect but they are decidedly better than the full double deckers that used to thunder past the bus stops. Obviously the plural of "anecdote" is not "data" but, as the last Travelwatch piece on the matter pointed out, actually speaking to those who use the services regularly wouldn't be a bad place to start if you're trying to get a fair assessment of their success (or failure). Quite frankly I tend to find (not here, but in general) that a lot of the criticism the bendies get comes from people who've never even been on one (let alone used them regularly), and whose vision of how London buses should be involves Butler driving a Routemaster with Blakey hanging off the back. |
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