tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post2663477273378866550..comments2024-03-22T11:55:50.335+13:00Comments on Not PC: White elephants on the hoofPeter Cresswellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10699845031503699181noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-17982813921547645682008-04-28T19:46:00.000+12:002008-04-28T19:46:00.000+12:00Why have bus lanes at all?Why subsidise those gros...Why have bus lanes at all?<BR/><BR/>Why subsidise those gross polluters to spew deadly carcinogens into the air? (take a look at the exhausts from those things, buses operate on a duty cycle which sticks more muck into the air than anything else on the road, they also feature high milage tired engines)<BR/><BR/>Why steal money to allow indecently loud buses without proper soundproofing to wreck the hearing of innocent passers-by (note how young peple who listen to loud boom boom music get persecited by the constabulary while rattly hissing buses get a free pass- hypocracy indeed)?<BR/><BR/>Why subsiduse these mobile traffic jams at all? If people wanted them they'd pay full cost fares. Let's have some user pays.<BR/><BR/>Buses = scam.<BR/><BR/>LGMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-22343867595121106042008-04-28T13:48:00.000+12:002008-04-28T13:48:00.000+12:00We ban taxis from bus lanes? I'm sure I read 'Bus ...We ban taxis from bus lanes? I'm sure I read 'Bus taxi only' somewhere... not that it matters since everyone seems to use the bus lanes.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10742132795007277656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-11774383655059998652008-04-28T11:31:00.000+12:002008-04-28T11:31:00.000+12:00Thanks for the update Scott. They must have chang...Thanks for the update Scott. They must have changed the rules since, because there were numerous cabs crawling along with the other poor sods.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-19046908514911572972008-04-28T11:05:00.000+12:002008-04-28T11:05:00.000+12:00To be fair sus, the M4 bus lane now IS useful beca...To be fair sus, the M4 bus lane now IS useful because cabs can use it, which means trips from Heathrow can bypass part of a queue.<BR/><BR/>New Zealand is the only country I know off that bans taxis from all bus lanes, whereas in the UK taxis can use most of them (except a handful in very high density bus streets).Libertyscotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12741049550997300680noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-61703574875705082072008-04-28T11:03:00.000+12:002008-04-28T11:03:00.000+12:00Ha ha..as a great beneficiary of speedy bus lanes,...Ha ha..as a great beneficiary of speedy bus lanes, I must say it is jolly welcome!<BR/><BR/>I cannot help smirking at the chaps in cars waiting for ages, bumper to bumper, to get down Sandringham Rd in 'rush hour' as we go wizzing past in the bus.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11906042.post-44008934824651422162008-04-28T10:52:00.000+12:002008-04-28T10:52:00.000+12:00Planners really seem to be the same silly socialis...Planners really seem to be the same silly socialists the world over.<BR/><BR/>Watching an old episode of "Top Gear" earlier this year ... they had a live feed of the 'buses only' lane recently implemented upon one of Britain's major motorways - think it was the M4 - just a few miles out of London.<BR/><BR/>Yep .. whilst the other lanes were clogged with cars, this bus lane was wide open catering for .. one vehicle .. one, during the hour in which the show was taped.<BR/><BR/>And it was an intercity coach, too, as opposed to a local commuter bus.<BR/><BR/>The whole thing just screamed Ken Livingstone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com