The Herald Express is running a vote on it's on-line version. The question people in their thousands, well 210 so far have been voting about is Fleet Street and buses. Fleet Street is part pedestrianised and part bus lane,45 buses a hour run up and down it. The Herald is trying to jump on the perennial bandwagon once more and lead a crusading campaign to get rid of the buses. Anyway at the moment the vote is going badly for the buses with 67% voting against buses in Fleet Street, that's 140 out of a population of 145 000 in the Bay. The vote has been running for over a week which would suggest the idea is a dead duck. It just isn't going to happen; not unless the roadway collapses suddenly under one of the poor unfortunate buses.
That's 33 tonnes worth of buses very close together there outside the Ed Wool Shop. Any sign of any cracks?
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Hope you are feeling better now Dave? - Dave
Great to see you posting again Dave.
I have said frequently that the answer to Fleet Street is to do it like Exeter High Street- put it back to a roadway with drop curbs then pedestrians know that there is a roadway there. Really it's the same as they have done with Union St- even the bit with no traffic has a proper roadway and pavements.
There's no easy diversionary route anyway which won't inconvenience bus users by making journeys longer or bus stops farther away.
The Herald Express needs it's arse kicking. Are bus passengers not it's customers, as well as customers of the shops? Madness. I blame it on the bad air up in Hele where they are based. Oh. Did I forget to do anything about the air quality in Hele? Another project quietly forgotten.
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