Bendy buses in Bristol...
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I was in York last weekend, where they already have these pieces of useless s
t. You should see the hell they wreak on the traffic. If you ever thought Bristol was bad...
Why does the council hate trams and trains so much? Buses are clearly the transport of the devil, and no-one with a choice will ever use them.
t. You should see the hell they wreak on the traffic. If you ever thought Bristol was bad...Why does the council hate trams and trains so much? Buses are clearly the transport of the devil, and no-one with a choice will ever use them.
N Dentressangle said:
Why does the council hate trams and trains so much?
The snag is the frankly ludicrous amounts of money that it costs to lay and maintain tracks etc. What I cannot understand is that Manchester has a working tram system so why can't we? Whiteladies Rd, Blackboy Hill, Park St and the main road across the downs to W-o-T are all wide enought to put a tram system in - because that is where they ripped the old one out of!When they investigated putting one in I gather that it fell down on 2 points: where the northern end should finish (ie Cribbs Causeway or not) and the potential lack of funding from the government meant the numbers were shakey.
I would far rather see money spent on a tram system than a bl00dy bus lane on the M32 and other "key routes"....
mechsympathy said:
It's because they're designed to look like trams.
I wish I were surprised, but with a council this st anything's possible.I know rail infrastructure ain't cheap, but most other 2 bit large towns in Europe seem to manage to afford it. Hell, if the Monaco and Cannes of the North, aka Manchester & Sheffield can find the money???
How about this as a cheaper option:
http://www.railway-technology.com/projects/caen/
The bit that gets me is this:
How the is a 30-ton, 60ft long behemoth going to negotiate the Hotwells / Cumberland Basin one way system anyway? Will they be rebuilding all of Brunel's historic bridges to take the weight & girth?
Madness.
Article said:
The route would run on a mixture of roads and guided busways from Long Ashton to Ashton Gate, around the Cumberland Basin, along Cumberland Road and via Wapping Wharf before heading through the city centre towards Temple Meads.
Have you seen the chaos just driving one of those little 20-seater things along Cumberland Road causes?How the
is a 30-ton, 60ft long behemoth going to negotiate the Hotwells / Cumberland Basin one way system anyway? Will they be rebuilding all of Brunel's historic bridges to take the weight & girth?Madness.
I can state categorically, since I've interacted with them in the dayjob, that BCC esp. the Transport division really are as clueless as you lot think, from the top to the bottom (and that's a long way down).
Traffic in Brissol would be just fine if only they'd tell First where to go. Literally. But no, they subsidise the routes... and now bendy-buses (!) Which are already hilarious to watch here in Bath.... but not to be stuck behind.
Traffic in Brissol would be just fine if only they'd tell First where to go. Literally. But no, they subsidise the routes... and now bendy-buses (!) Which are already hilarious to watch here in Bath.... but not to be stuck behind.
Huff said:
I can state categorically, since I've interacted with them in the dayjob, that BCC esp. the Transport division really are as clueless as you lot think, from the top to the bottom (and that's a long way down).
Traffic in Brissol would be just fine if only they'd tell First where to go. Literally. But no, they subsidise the routes... and now bendy-buses (!) Which are already hilarious to watch here in Bath.... but not to be stuck behind.
I smile every time I see one of them ground out on the way into or out of Bath Spa Uni - and I swear every time I have to sit through another change of lights because one of them is using both lanes to get enough space to turn right off the Lower Brostol Road at the Holiday Inn.Traffic in Brissol would be just fine if only they'd tell First where to go. Literally. But no, they subsidise the routes... and now bendy-buses (!) Which are already hilarious to watch here in Bath.... but not to be stuck behind.
A - big, orange - pox on the lot of them.
Brian Fantana said:
what happened to Bristol being the first "cycling city"? I guess BCC have decided it's too expensive and instead kill all cyclists using bendy buses.
cyclists should start to learn not to run red lights. see it every dayoff topic I know. sorry
Edited by RemaL on Friday 19th December 13:05
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