Showcase bus route!

[Roadkill]

Edinburgh's doing pretty well for itself economically these days: it's difficult to believe there's all that much spare land in the centre - and I certainly didn't notice much in the way of derelict buildings when I was there for a few days last month...

Even if you can find the parking space, what about actually moving about? I take it you're aware that, by the 1970s, traffic in London was moving more slowly than in the era of the horse-drawn bus...? You seem to think that the problem of traffic congestion can just be magicked away with a few new roads. That isn't so - especially in a historic city like Edinburgh where there isn't space for any new roads in any case.

But the fact is, you'll say absolutely anything to justify your weird obsession with bashing public transport - or play up to the right-wing snob character you like to portay yourself as - so there's no point trying to conduct a sensible discussion with you.

 

[Crispy]

I'll say it again, it's not a lack of space fro parking, it's a lack of space for roads.

 

[Cobbles]

You seem to think that the problem of traffic congestion can just be magicked away with a few new roads. That isn't so - especially in a historic city like Edinburgh where there isn't space for any new roads in any case.

So, no room for bendy buses and trams, then.

YAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!

 

[Isambard]

So, no room for bendy buses and trams, then.

The space needed to run bendy buses and trams is that created by reducing car use.

And where need be, you can use innovative solutions to place the stops.
As JTG pointed out, in the middle of the road for example.

The particulates regs for the EU apply, whoever is creating the fumes.
IF breaches in Edinburgh are being caused by the buses then they will have to be replaced.

 

[Roadkill]

So, no room for bendy buses and trams, then.

YAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!

You don't want the bendy buses anyway. They're no use in British cities with narrow roads.

 

[Crispy]

They're not bad on the wider London streets. But while I lived in Bath, they tried to introduce bendy buses - stupid, stupid idea.

 

[Roadkill]

Can't say I think much of them anywhere, tbh. Standard double-deckers offer near-enough the same capacity and don't take up nearly as much road-space as the bendy buses.

 

[Crispy]

The advantage of the bendies is that they're quicker to get people on and off.

 

[Roadkill]

...but none of them pay.