Bus Lanes

[Pienaar's gloves]

For those of you who don't know, Liverpool City Council suspended these last year for an initial nine months which was later extended and will now end on 24th November. In this time, all traffic has been able to make use of them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-24606912

Personally, I've found it a bit of a pain, I'm a frequent bus user and journey times have increased slightly.

Are they a good idea, bad idea? Should Liverpool keep them or get rid? What about elsewhere?

 

[ilikecheese]

Where's the melted cheese on public transit option?

 

[roydo]

Dont mind bus lanes. But those 2 people occupancy lanes do my head in. They make everything worse for like 95% of people ffs.

 

[Pienaar's gloves]

Where's the melted cheese on public transit option?

Rectified, apologies.

 

[evilwebby]

get on yer bike...

 

[The Cowboy]

Got some proper stupid bus lanes near where I live. Road widens to have a bus lane and a regular lane, but the bus lane is only bus-only in peak times. Yet you'll still get the plonkers who don't use it, leading to gridlock at the end where two lanes of traffic try to merge back together.

Scrap them completely, but where possible, make priority lanes for buses at traffic lights, help them crack on.

 

[Huyton Layne]

Some of the bus lanes in liverpool were very poorly designed. One that jumps to mind was at the Green Lane junction on the A57( might be prescot road at that point)in old swan where the bus lane ended far too close to the traffic light making it possible for people turning right to back up traffic enough that you couldn't get passed in to the open straight lane without using the bus lane

 

[Pienaar's gloves]

get on yer bike...

Rode my bike to uni once, tyres slashed.

Some of the bus lanes in liverpool were very poorly designed. One that jumps to mind was at the Green Lane junction on the A57( might be prescot road at that point)in old swan where the bus lane ended far too close to the traffic light making it possible for people turning right to back up traffic enough that you couldn't get passed in to the open straight lane without using the bus lane

I like them but the one that did my head in was Lime Street. Just past Lewis's heading towards the hall you had to turn and go down Ranelagh Street, taking in three sets of traffic lights to get back onto the same road. Lots of people just went for it there anyway.

 

[The Cowboy]

Any excuse to watch this again.

 

[GwladysStreetHero]

The one on the high street and picton road should be scrapped traffic queues stretched from the matalan near wavertree road all the way down to picton clock while the bus lane lay empty with about four buses using an snide black cabs

 

[Walken]

In general a good idea, though they shouldn't cause others strife

 

[tommye]

complete waste of time, bar the few they propose to keep (4 I think?)


Road standing empty while traffic queues for miles. Fukwittery at its incompetent best.

 

[Pienaar's gloves]

Ones in Southport are dreadful. They pedestrianised and added lanes at the same time.

 

[Woolly Blue]

I'm interested to here Kurt's views on this.
I suspect it will depend on whether the lines are painted white or blue.

 

[tommye]

the buses only trundle through kurts part of the woods once a week.

They ride sheep most other times.