[Gllug] [OT] Times Article on ABD was Fighting a virus

[John Hearns]

Chris Bell wrote:
> On Tue 20 Feb, John Hearns wrote:
> 
>> I will give you a for instance - Lower Road in SE16 is always 
>> chock-a-block in the evening rush hour, with cars going south. There is 
>> a bus lane on the left. Talking away that bus lane would make no 
>> difference to congestion - there is a line of cars stretching from the 
>> Jamaica Road roundabout down to Greenwich. Taking away the bus lane 
>> would allow one more lane of stationary cars.
>>
>    That assumes that all traffic enters at one end and exits at the other,
> with no intermediate junctions.

True. The point I'm trying to make really is that drivers don't see 
further than their own bonnet. They fondly imagine that just around the 
corner there is an empty road.  (Again making it clear that I have a car).

The M4 bus lane stuff I got from this rather entertaining site:
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/indepth/m4buslane/
"A display of sheer genius" - and this is a road fan website.


Of relevance to London:
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/histories/ringways/
Anyone familiar with Brixton might have wondered why that big block of 
flats near Coldharbour Lane  has a whole wall of tiny windows.
Now you know why - it was intended to back onto a motorway.
http://www.cbrd.co.uk/histories/ringways/ringway1.shtml#scr




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