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- From: ssurpeat@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Richard T Peat)
- Newsgroups: uk.transport
- Subject: Re: City Traffic
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 16:21:32 GMT
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- In article 935820125829@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk, TREHARAJ@ibm3090.bham.ac.uk () writes:
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- >The sight of long traffic queues on the main roads in Birmingham annoys the
- >hell out of me especially when most of the cars contain the driver only.
- >Of course everybody realises that a group of buses is better than the
- >equivalent number of cars, in terms of fuel, the environment, accidents,
- >travel time etc. Unfortunately the initiative is not going to come from
- >the motorists. Birmingham City Council are planning to narrow some of
- >the main roads in the south of the city and introduce bus lanes. They hope
- >this will make it intolerable for motorists and get them onto the buses.
- >Anothe reason is the recognition that residential areas are nothing more than
- >hell-holes for a few hours each day when the roads through them choke up with
- >traffic, they say they want to improve the environment of these areas by
- >reducing traffic, widening pavements and putting the trees back. I hope
- >that this works in the long term. In the short term it will slow traffic down
- >and cause long queues, this is the idea.
- >
- >Andy T.
-
-
- The ONLY way you will get people off the roads, is to force them. You can have the
- most wonderful buses possible, but people won't use them because 'it's more
- convienient' to use a car. I vote for VERY large car parking prices, and bus lanes
- on every part of a bus route. Also, it would be good if some sort of priority system
- for busses at traffic lights could be introduced.
-
- I say well done to BCC, and I hope others will follow suit.
-
- Richard Peat
-