Excuse me can I just squeeze through

[phil_hg_uk]

The bus lane that is too narrow for buses

Speaking to Lynn News, Brian Lake, 63, who cycles the route every morning, witnessed the unveiling ceremony.

"It's a farce. It took a driver and someone standing in the footwell to see the driver through the pinch point on the trial run. There are tyre marks on the kerb where it has squeezed through."

He also questioned the need for double yellow lines on the route, which is used only by buses and cyclists.

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[Paulus]

I suspect someone from the council didn't ask the Bus company for the measurements of the buses. Another wonderful piece of town planning. I thought the quote from the company about the drivers boycoting the lane was good. We have not the resources to train the drivers on the route. Excellent mangement get out.

 

[Over The Hill]

I have seen two roundabouts put in here in Roudabout City both too small that were then made bigger. You think they would be able to work it out on paper first. Total waste of money.

 

[661-Pete]

Ah well - amusing but hopefully not life-threatening! I'm more worried about bus heights TBH. Some years ago they were running a replacement bus service after a landslip on the railway line, the double-decker* made straight for this bridge. Typical height of a double-decker is about 14ft. Go figure . My wife was on the bus. Luckily some of the passengers screamed at the driver, he stopped in time.

*The regular service buses in our area are all single-deckers, don't have this problem .

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Ah yes where i used to work there was a low bridge and one day a huge truck decided it would be good idea to take a short cut down that road.

Oh dear what a mess tin opened to top of the trailer like a tin of sardines. Lucky it was a truck and not a bus.

 

[Cardiac]

I suspect someone from the council didn't ask the Bus company for the measurements of the buses.

They may have asked and they may have been given the information, but perhaps failed to use it correctly.

There are cases where the "width" of a vehicle is used without consideration to its length or turning circle. That could easily be the case here, as it is on the entrances to some multi-story car parks.

I have also seen parking spaces that would be fine if the lines were at 90 degrees to the measured "width", but they were placed at 45 degrees to make entry easier and without any adjustment, therefore reducing the true width to about 70% of the original. Hopeless.

 

[I like Skol]

I have seen two roundabouts put in here in Roudabout City both too small that were then made bigger. You think they would be able to work it out on paper first. Total waste of money.

Similar here in Tameside and really makes you wonder where the highways dept recruites it's staff from. A couple of years ago they put in a small central pedestrian refuge on one of the busy main roads nearby. It was only a small one, two small kerbed humps with a lit bollard on each one so they had to dig across the road to lay on the mains power. A few weeks later they came back and took it all out and replaced it with one about 15-20 yards further along the road. FFS, I'm paying my council tax to cover this stupidity!

I reckon most of the council staff are probably redeployed from other totaly unrelated departments and actually have very little or no knowledge of the jobs they are supposed to be doing (a sweeping statement but it's the impression I get).

 

[XmisterIS]

Once again, the astonishing incompetence of a group of civil servants knows no bounds ...

 

[Globalti]

My climbing pal is a professional indemnity insurance broker so he gets to insure all kinds of architects, surveyors, engineers, councils and the like. He says that good professionals go to work for private companies and the incompetent ones end up in local councils. QED.