BBC News - Liverpool bus lanes suspended
That old commie Derek Hatton must be having kittens!
That old commie Derek Hatton must be having kittens!
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Mcqueen
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Todays good news, cant believe it.
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Our local paper showed all the buildings that are going to be demolished for the new trolly bus systemPerfectspecimen wrote:BBC News - Liverpool bus lanes suspended
That old commie Derek Hatton must be having kittens!
If you have a 10"pipe and you reduce it to 1" what have you got ? A 1" pipe,Are these bus's going to jump over the traffic at the 1" section ? Er no. WTF
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Bus lanes have always annoyed me. Why the hell should a bus passenger get somewhere quicker than a car? Makes no sense to me. £215 a year I pay in road tax, thats the first reason why they shouldn't.
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People behind these pipe dreams should be made to read the history of the Edinburgh Tram Fiasco...
Edinburgh has a very good, cheap, clean, modern, profitable, council run bus service, efficient bus services running to all the outer suburbs, then a few, and it was a few tram mad twats in the council got their way, that's when the farce started, the tram line, and that's what it is, a line not a system, which due to increasing costs was reduced in length by almost half, the surviving half runs from the city centre on the airport on the outskirts of town, if you have a look at the route plan, there are very few stops, and even fewer stops close to where people actually live, the council have eventually admitted it will never be profitable, a point opposers of the scheme gave predictions of well before the project even started...
It was a vanity project, never a serious transport solution in my opinion...
Sent this e-mail to my mate who stays one side of Edinburgh, and his brother the other:-
"I hear they (the council) have voted to continue with the tram project, all be it only half the length than originally planned, but never mind, the half they've saved is on your side of town, be great when you go over to see Bob (his brother) you can jump the 26 bus from your place, get off at Glasgow Road, walk over to the Gyle tram stop, (is only about a mile and a half), jump the tram in to Princess Street, then catch the 26 bus to Bobs, should only add about half an hour to your journey time,,, you Green Twat..."
Should add, mates a bit of a tree hugger, that said he was totally against the tram system, could see it was just a waste of money...
Edinburgh has a very good, cheap, clean, modern, profitable, council run bus service, efficient bus services running to all the outer suburbs, then a few, and it was a few tram mad twats in the council got their way, that's when the farce started, the tram line, and that's what it is, a line not a system, which due to increasing costs was reduced in length by almost half, the surviving half runs from the city centre on the airport on the outskirts of town, if you have a look at the route plan, there are very few stops, and even fewer stops close to where people actually live, the council have eventually admitted it will never be profitable, a point opposers of the scheme gave predictions of well before the project even started...
It was a vanity project, never a serious transport solution in my opinion...
Sent this e-mail to my mate who stays one side of Edinburgh, and his brother the other:-
"I hear they (the council) have voted to continue with the tram project, all be it only half the length than originally planned, but never mind, the half they've saved is on your side of town, be great when you go over to see Bob (his brother) you can jump the 26 bus from your place, get off at Glasgow Road, walk over to the Gyle tram stop, (is only about a mile and a half), jump the tram in to Princess Street, then catch the 26 bus to Bobs, should only add about half an hour to your journey time,,, you Green Twat..."
Should add, mates a bit of a tree hugger, that said he was totally against the tram system, could see it was just a waste of money...
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Same with bike lanes, and they ignore all the rules e.g traffic lights dont apply to cyclists.
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cycle lanes and bus lanes are a joke. The amount of cyclists that don't use them is ridiculous
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Overhead rails for bikes, like tight ropes, this would be great, here comes another dear, splat.