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Mark
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Peter B wrote:
> "Paul Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> OTOH, an empty bus lane might waste the road space that could be used by 500 folk. Bus lanes are
>> designed and conceived primarily to reduce the quality of other motor transport to bring it down
>> towards the level of the bus. Bus lane schemes don't even improve the journey time of the busses
>> by a significant amount. And that's in a DfT report.
>
> As an aside re bus lanes: The ones on the main road my street enters onto have bus lanes that
> operate city bound for 2 hours Mon-Fri morning and outward bound for 2 hours Mon-Fri early
> evening, ie the peak tidal flow times and directions.
>
> Fortunately many motorists are incapable of reading the prominent blue signs providing this
> information and will neatly steer around them when they are not in force, this leaves me with a
> whole lane to myself when driving and of course the lane is available for my use as a cyclist
> during peak times, seems ok to me ;-)
>
> On a more serious note this highlights 2 things: 1, Many motorists either don't see, can't read or
> don't understand road signs. 2, In their efforts to unneccessarily avoid the bus lanes they place
> themselves nearer the crown of the road decreasing their separation from oncoming traffic. This is
> less of a safety issue when the bus lanes are in force because due to the volumes of traffic
> speeds are a lot slower, at least in one direction.
>
> Pete
You're lucky with your bus lanes. On my daily commute about half the bus lanes are full of queued
cars. On thursday even a police car sat in a queue of traffic in a bus lane, leaving me the empty
outside lane to pass them all.
Having said that some of the bus lanes are a total waste of time, one I pass is three times the
length of the bus stop in the middle of it.
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Mark
> "Paul Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> OTOH, an empty bus lane might waste the road space that could be used by 500 folk. Bus lanes are
>> designed and conceived primarily to reduce the quality of other motor transport to bring it down
>> towards the level of the bus. Bus lane schemes don't even improve the journey time of the busses
>> by a significant amount. And that's in a DfT report.
>
> As an aside re bus lanes: The ones on the main road my street enters onto have bus lanes that
> operate city bound for 2 hours Mon-Fri morning and outward bound for 2 hours Mon-Fri early
> evening, ie the peak tidal flow times and directions.
>
> Fortunately many motorists are incapable of reading the prominent blue signs providing this
> information and will neatly steer around them when they are not in force, this leaves me with a
> whole lane to myself when driving and of course the lane is available for my use as a cyclist
> during peak times, seems ok to me ;-)
>
> On a more serious note this highlights 2 things: 1, Many motorists either don't see, can't read or
> don't understand road signs. 2, In their efforts to unneccessarily avoid the bus lanes they place
> themselves nearer the crown of the road decreasing their separation from oncoming traffic. This is
> less of a safety issue when the bus lanes are in force because due to the volumes of traffic
> speeds are a lot slower, at least in one direction.
>
> Pete
You're lucky with your bus lanes. On my daily commute about half the bus lanes are full of queued
cars. On thursday even a police car sat in a queue of traffic in a bus lane, leaving me the empty
outside lane to pass them all.
Having said that some of the bus lanes are a total waste of time, one I pass is three times the
length of the bus stop in the middle of it.
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Mark