| Topic: | Re:Re:Floating Bus Stops | |
| Posted by: | Paul Green | |
| Date/Time: | 13/11/20 08:10:00 |
| Mark is fundamentally correct. We need to counter the constant flow of disinformation. The temporary version of CS9 has crticial differences to the original, there has been no traffic modelling, and TFL do not really know what the impact will be. Traffic will be far, far slower, with more diverting onto surrounding routes. Buses will suffer, always my primary complaint with this scheme. You cannot want people out of cars and then make the main mass alternative unusable. As for the new bus gate before the Acton Lane junction, one has to question the sanity and competence of whoever designed this. For eastbound High Road traffic this junction was busy but functioned and buses had a very long bus lane and then had no problem filtering into the traffic to go straight ahead. I say this from long personal experience. The new scheme nearly halves the junction capacity, reducing the left turn lane for Acton Lane and then with a dedicated green time for buses. Pre lockdown the longer queues were evident even before the new lights are in use, with traffic diverting down onto Wellesley (BTW the route of CS9!) and then up Sutton Lane. It can only 'work' to a degree if the plan is to reduce green time for non-bus traffic substantially and so throttle traffic onto the main section of High Rd. This will create gridlock, with even more traffic diverting along Wellesley and then onto Sutton Lane or Heathfield Terrace. It will also make it near impossible to access Acton Lane from the west or south. Madness does not do this justice. |