| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Was anyone else.. | |
| Posted by: | Raymond Havelock | |
| Date/Time: | 09/11/23 10:06:00 |
| The 267 on Tuesday took 35 mins from Hammersmith Bus Station to Ravenscourt Park Station. King Street completely gridlocked by 2 delivery vehicles, a failed bus and no means to pass. This has to be the 3rd or 4th time in just the last 6 weeks. The total journey time to Brentford half Acre was 76 minutes. The 267 in the other direction from Isleworth is equally hopelessly delayed as are most routes to and from West Middx Hospital. And yes Driver sickness from fatigue and over reached hours is affecting most local operators of local routes. Yesterday took the H91 instead. Buses were running 19 to 23 mins behind schedule. Again King Street blocked mainly by other buses and huge queues. This journey also took over an hour to Ealing Road. And it is the traffic lights that are causing the problems in the main. Not the road works. They are all over the place and not letting traffic flow. TfL are completely indignant and not willing to even do anything about this. It's simply not acceptable to get responses that suggest one "Walks or Cycles" nor are posters suggesting the same as some sort of justification for an appalling bus service which is clearly either utter incompetence of traffic management or quite deliberate. Given comments from one or two officials that "This is what we need to get people to use other means " I feel that it may be the latter and about time this was made clear. TfL will not produce journey times and when they do they are talking random journeys and between certain sections. However there best way is to compare timetables from 2017 ( before they started making alterations to justify Cycle Route delay causes ) and reductions in capacity and frequency. What the timetables do show is the actual journey times. Currently it is impossible to even compare. And why is it Cllr Lambert remains the only Councillor in Ealing and Hounslow who is daring to raise this consistently? What the heck is wrong with the Transport officers and the Cabinet lead who remain aloof entirely? And not a word from Ruth Cadbury or Rupa Huq as this affects a very wide area of residential and small businesses. |