Queen Square Bus Station

[Barney]

RE: Queen Square Bus Station

(15/02/2015 11:43)childwallblues Wrote:  It is obvious that our Mayor does not like buses - his destruction of the bus lanes has proved that. And allowing parking on main bus routes such as Lord Street, Sir Thomas Street and North John Street makes the situation even more worse.

It's not just legitimate parking that creates problems. Last Thursday at 2.30pm I was at Sir Thomas Street waiting for a Netherton service. Unusually, not one bus turned up for what seemed an age. Then I noticed that a delivery wagon was parked in the middle of the road at the top of Sir Thomas Street and Dale Street junction, blocking all traffic. After another five minutes, the driver decided to move his wagon onto the pavement to allow traffic to pass. By now there was a queue of vehicles stretching back to Queen Square and probably a hundred people at the stop. My bus - and every other - was now ten minutes late. No sign of any traffic warden though. For all his many, many faults, Boris doesn't allow deliveries at that time of the day.