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but the bus provision suggested so far is nowhere near good enough. It needs to be improved. No reason why we shouldn't expect from the buses what we used to have at Goodison pre 1986. Anyone 50+ should remember.
Walking, taxis, trains, parking etc all need to be looked at again, too, and each of those methods of getting there needs to be the best it can. Different pedestrian routes clearly marked, more taxi ranks, longer trains with a better frequency, a realistic no parking zone that doesn't cover too big an area. They all play a part.
Just for the record a double decker bus carries a lot more than 50 people. Possibly about 80? Previous Message
Say a bus takes 50 people. There are three lines in this scheme. So 150 people at once. If each route has a bus every 10 minutes, it would mean 900 per hour.
In order to move 5000 (about 10% of BMD's capacity) in two hours, you'd need a bus about every four minutes running on each route.
Which doesn't sound too bad until you calculate how many buses you would need in total. I don't know how long the routes are but if average is 20 minutes from start to BMD (plus loading and unloading) you'd need 10 buses on every line, so 30 in total (and they run empty half the time).
Sorry if I bored anyone I just got thinking what sort of amount of people those buses could conceivably move and thought someone else might be interested as well (or want to point out why I'm wrong). Previous Message
encouraging news. More Soccerbus routes and a better frequency is the obvious, easiest solution to any transport issues. Also, bring back the bus lanes that Joe Anderson foolishly scrapped.
Trams, more trains, more train stations etc is for the future. The transport issue is reasonably easy to fix now with buses. Previous Message
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