classic33
Leg End Member
Normal sized buses in use, more smaller buses required, including tour buses.
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Slick
Guru
Sounds reasonable, although diesel power has to go regardles.
classic33
Leg End Member
Big vehicles and narrow streets don't really mix. Especially at junctions.
They are it turns out was in the news tonight. Clean air zone is coming current city centre fleet all going electric shorty. Harrogate went all electric a few years ago seams to work well they charge as they pull into the bus station stands. All over head and automatic quite seamless.
Two of the York Sightseeing buses have already been converted to electric and the Poppleton park and ride service is usually electric vehicles. Harrogate is only electric for four local routes (for just over a year), although not unknown for normal buses to turn up, plus sometimes the service along Nidderdale; the two electric vehicles that are supposed to work that service include one that was originally used for a York University service.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
LA only sees the money the government gives them they don't get a direct income from the tax.
Maybe York can follow this idea
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50658537
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50658537
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
I think its brilliant, but the British lazy ass public will moan. Hell, this thread is full of committed cyclists who are more enlightened than the norm, yet some are still complaining about what York has coming, so such a utopian experiment seems doomed to meet a lot of bleating if it were tried here.
confusedcyclist
Veteran
You might like this book, it features localism and aftermath of the market economy, among other interesting topics.
https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/surviving-the-future/
Randomnerd
Bimbleur
- Location
- North Yorkshire
https://www.yorkmix.com/police-release-pictures-after-aggressive-cyclist-abuses-york-bus-driver/
Anyone? No, I have an alibi. I was in reading CC.
It’s war out there!
Anyone? No, I have an alibi. I was in reading CC.
It’s war out there!
LCpl Boiled Egg
Three word soundbite
The man is described as
- white
- roughly 5ft 10ins tall
- with short, grey receding hair
- and a grey, short beard.
Wasn't me either - I was washing my hair guv.
The article doesn't give any info as to what may have caused the incident, but I wonder if it could be linked to the bus making inappropriate use of the ASL for cyclists at traffic lights?
My personal experience of being a regular cyclist in York is that far too many bus drivers regard the ASL as being their own personal territory (yes First Bus, I'm talking about your so-called "professional" drivers here).
I know someone who used to be a bus driver and we talked about this, and they basically admitted that they did it in an attempt to prevent cyclists getting ahead of them, as they knew it would be almost impossible for them to subsequently overtake the cyclist on the narrow streets in the centre of York.
Just for balance, it's not just the buses that abuse the ASL's in York. You can also include taxi's, vans, BMW's, Audi's etc etc.
