"I wonder how it's going to work when a bus is at its stop"I think all we have to do is look at King Street as an example. The barriers put in place are problematic for several reasons. They are often moved around or now removed in some places. They are impermeable in terms of pedestrian crossing so people climb over them as happens on Turnham Green. This literally puts up a wall for shoppers to freely move about as they once did, traffic permitting.As for bus stops, the buses simply idle with traffic building up behind them. Cyclists continue to use the road and pavement bypassing completely the temporary cycle lane which is always fun to watch especially when they get aggressive with anyone caught in the traffic. Traffic gets shoe-horned, the cycle lane remains empty and yet cyclists still get angry because they can't squeeze past the vehicles on the road. People also walk in the cycle lane which admittedly doesn't help but hey, its empty, so why not. In other areas with new temporary measures they have built up the roadway effectively widening the pavement in front of bus stops. Bus riders wait at the shelter then walk across the newly raised cycle bit to board the bus. Anyone cycling would approach this section, go up the ramp, across the bus stop then down the ramp again to continue on the road.Put it all together and to me an improvement would be fill the damn barriers with water as intended to fix them in place, stagger them to allow pedestrians to pass through (also known as a healthy street goal not to mention good for business) and actually enforce the use of the cycle lane which would go a long way toward generating useful data for whatever the next step might be.
David Lesniak ● 2265d