"That's equivalent to nose to tail traffic from Hammersmith to Windsor every day."You're right - 6,600 cars take up a lot of space. If you left a minimum 1 car length between each car, that's 37.5 miles and will allow you to line up the cars in a single lane on the M4, M25 and M3 from Fisher's Lane all the way to Aldershot. Some common Chiswick cars are longer than 15ft (e.g. Landrover Discovery, Mercedes S Class, Audi A8 and BMW 7) all 16.5-18 feet long.For reference, the original Routemaster was 27ft long, the new one is 36ft (or two Land Rovers long) and London single decker buses are 30-40 ft long - once you take into account the space between cars, single decker buses are roughly twice as long as a car, and carry about 40 people - although capacity including standing can take it to about 60 I think - double deckers about double, as you might expect.Bikes are about 6 foot long and people are about 1 foot long....and a lot narrower than a car, so you can fit a lot more people on foot or on bikes in the same space.The distance from the mini roundabout at the top of Fisher's to CHR is approximately 1,000 feet - you could fit in: - 66 cars nose to tail with circa 100 people at average occupancy. - 522 bikes, nose to tail and 3 abreast - 28 buses, nose to tail carrying 1,120 people (40 per bus)Turning Fisher's Lane into a two-way bus lane has, going by the numbers, dramatically increased capacity of this north/south route.
Ed Saper ● 1690d