Clive wrote:
In message , Depresion
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it makes life easier for the few people who drive buses and screws
up traffic for far more people.
Correct, in the little town where I live, on a main road is a bus stop
and right opposite it is an island in the middle of the road so that
when the bus stops all traffic behind is held up, not even a cyclist
could get through.

For a while, there was a built-out bus stop he
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl...k&z=19&iwloc=A
which traffic planners might have thought was a ideal place in terms of
helping bus drivers, passengers and pedestrians, particularly those with
mobility problems. They took it out again, because it didn't work.