| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Welcome to B🚦R🚦E🚦N🚦T🚦F🚦O🚦R🚦D | |
| Posted by: | Raymond Havelock | |
| Date/Time: | 08/01/24 09:59:00 |
| The constructions works from Ealing Road to Kew Bridge will mean much of Kew Bridge road and Brentford High st being ripped up in places yet again for the next 6 to 8 years. That will include tearing up much of the new Cycle route as that now covers much of the underground cable, water drainage and gas offshoot ducting. The queues on Saturday were up to 40 mins from Ealing Road to Kew and bad again near Richmond. In both directions. Bus delays are massive with many buses now even curtailing in both directions and not just at Half Acre. Bus drivers will tell you how it is now compared to just a few years ago. They have become like.trams. Unable to pass. There are now so few passing points that one bus or even a large vehicle can block an entire road. Hammersmith Broadway can have just one delayed bus loading a lot of passengers and that 3 mins or so is enough to jam up Hammersmith Road, Fulham Place Road and Shepherds Bush Road and it takes 15 mins to recover. Except that just one delay causes other excessive build ups of passengers and the whole thing repeats, all day. Buses stuck behind off any other route cannot pull out and pass. In fact passing points are now so minimal for that services have to be held for up to 7 mins at the few points between Hammersmith and Brentford that remain. So all journey times are significantly increased. TfL are fully aware of this. And their solution? To put posters up on bus shelters advising passengers to consider walking or cycling instead. Adding to the further hazards of bus passengers, TfL have now been forced to put warning displays about CS9 when getting off of buses in the Chiswick and Brentford areas as so many are getting hit by Cyclists. They will not admit this publicly but insurance companies are not prepared to underwrite accidents. So if you get hit as a bus passenger alighting, the authority will no longer be held responsible. Beware. |