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Post by bookd on Aug 9, 2018 14:42:51 GMT
There is a local diversion to me which I don't understand as yet although I will investigate. I saw a 111 to Kingston heading east on the A316; from the signs it must have turned right from Hounslow Road then round the Feltham Hill roundabout. I presume that the left turn at Hanworth Swan must be blocked, as the H25 does not seem to be affected. Diverted buses on the 111 would have to go to Hospital Bridge roundabout to turn and then take the slip road back to line of router missing out a few stops in Hanworth itself. Does anyone know more?
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Post by bookd on Aug 2, 2018 23:54:40 GMT
I suppose the issue with the X26 is that it has a clockface timetable. If the schedule was,speeded up to allow for easy periods then peak journeys would not keep up; also when driving I have known it to take ages to get through Worcester Park and Kingston in the middle of the day for no apparent reason.
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Post by bookd on Jun 12, 2018 20:36:51 GMT
Regarding my earlier post on the H25 maybe someone local may know why the southbound diversion is necessary. From Feltham Station it diverts via New Road,Harlington Road and Browells Lane; southbound journeys used to use the level crossing, which is still open, and if they reverted to that route they could still reach the Victoria Road stop in the High Street which is completely unserved by all routes until next February.
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Post by bookd on Jun 12, 2018 20:28:21 GMT
For the first time tonight I took the H25 home from Feltham on the diversion route, and noted that all of the stops on the diversion are on the screen and announcements - as this diversion will last for almost a year this could make sense. The temporary stops (at least the Browells Lane one) have proper bus stops with e plates for the routes served. I see from the notices on the stops the diversion will be lifted at 17.00 on 28th February 2019 - if that happens exactly on time that will be amazing!
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Post by bookd on May 13, 2018 18:22:23 GMT
I can't see what the ban is meant to achieve - it is evidently meant to target youth obesity, but it is hard to imagine a youth who has never heard of, say, Macdonalds or Coke but decided to give them a try because of an advert on a bus.
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Post by bookd on May 6, 2018 10:23:32 GMT
On the line for 635 I should of course have said 'towards Hounslow' rather than 'towards High Street'
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Post by bookd on May 6, 2018 10:20:47 GMT
A leaflet received from Hounslow Council advises that the works around Feltham station will start on May 29th, resulting in the complete closure of Hounslow Road between New Road and Hanworth Road. They include a summary of the bus routes affected as below.
90 will not serve High Street and will start and end at new stops in Browells Lane. 117 towards Staines will not serve High Street; towards West Middlesex Hospital will serve High Street with diversions in place. 235 towards Sunbury will not serve High Street; towards Brentford will serve High Street with diversions in place. 285 will serve Feltham Station with diversions in place. 490 will not serve Feltham Station, with diversions in place. 635 towards St. Pauls School will not serve High Street; towards High Street will serve High Street with diversions in place. H25 towards Butts Farm will not serve High Street; towards Hatton Cross will serve High Street with diversions in place. H26 towards Bedfont will not serve High Street; towards Sparrow Farm will serve High Street with diversions in place.
I think that I can guess most of the diversions, although I can't work out how the 285 and the H25(northbound) are expected to reach Feltham Station. As Feltham High Street and Hounslow Road are a traffic jam for much of the day anyway the diversionary roads are likely to be very congested, so all of the bus routes are likely to be heavily delayed. Pedestrians are told that the only route over the railway will be by way of the level crossing; there is a recommendation that if your journey does not start or end in Feltham Town Centre you should avoid it entirely.
This closure is expected to last for 10 months (unless of course it overruns!)
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Post by bookd on Apr 26, 2018 14:27:41 GMT
I'm sure this question has been asked before; but if a bus clips, scratches or lightly damages another vehicle, does the bus company have to pay for the thrid party's repairs? I ask this as drivers on a certain inner-city estates route which will remain nameless, have been driving extra cautiously of late. Thanks in advance for any info shared. I can't answer your question, but I can tell you what happened in London Transport days in the 1980s. I'd just passed my driving test and bought an old Ford Cortina. On leaving the traffic lights at Lee Green and turned left, indicating so, a 21 bus pulled away from the stop and went smack into the back of me. Insurance write-off, given I'd only paid £300 for the car, but I only had 3rd party and found, in dealing with LT's Insurance Dept. they had a blanket policy of refusing liability, unless a court case forced them to admit it. I got on quite well with the guy from that department, over the phone, having explained that I'd worked for LT in management, and I got the £300 back without too much aggro, but still admitting no liability on their part. I was more concerned that a youngish bus driver had got away with careless driving without sanction, but hey-ho. Nearly 20 years ago my parked car was side swiped in Hampton by a TGM bus on what I think was then still the 726. As I surveyed the damage a builder working opposite told me what had happened and the time; as the car was driveable I went straight to Fulwell Garage to complain. As the car was decorated with TGM's distinctive blue and yellow paint they could hardly argue, and they paid for the damage without dispute.
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Post by bookd on Apr 5, 2018 22:22:52 GMT
I read an interesting article the other day regarding Grosvenor Estates; they found that they had numerous delivery vehicles to their Mayfair offices both for their own goods and items ordered by staff for delivery to their works address. To solve this they have established a base on the outskirts where everything is to be delivered and then taken into the centre on one electrically powered van each day. They acknowledge that this will just move the traffic elsewhere but it may help in Central London if others followed their example.
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Post by bookd on Apr 2, 2018 15:48:24 GMT
I think that is the one.
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Post by bookd on Apr 2, 2018 15:02:10 GMT
Fans of diversions may enjoy Kingston on Saturday evening 14th April and most of Sunday 15th when removal of a footbridge will effectively prevent movement from one side of town to the other. Kingston Bridge will remain open but only as far as the car parks; the official diversion for general traffic is either via Teddington, Twickenham , Richmond and Ham or via Hampton Court, Hinchley Wood and Surbiton. Buses from the north on 111,216,285,411,461 and 481 will stop short at Wood Street / Horsemarket. Route 65 will divert via the 371 route between Ham and Kingston. Route 281 will be split Hounslow - Wood Street and Cromwell Road - Tolworth. Those who would like an extensive tour could take the X26 diverted via the 371 route to Ham then via Richmond Bridge and Twickenham to regain line of route. Traffic is likely to be chaos,not helped by rail services through Kingston being closed for engineering work - no idea where any RRB buses will go!
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Post by bookd on Feb 25, 2018 1:15:02 GMT
As I grew up (a long time ago) in the provinces I was used to most routes going from A to B and back again I have always been amazed at the LT timetables of that era with two or more overlapping sections and rare through journeys(as well, in some cases, of different end to end terminals at weekends). Looking at country area timetables is worse - other than the trunk routes some seem to have followed a different routing on nearly every journey; it is surprising that passengers ever found them.
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Post by bookd on Feb 5, 2018 23:59:09 GMT
But they may take one for their whole journey and decide that in future it is easier than the bus.
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Post by bookd on Dec 19, 2017 0:46:05 GMT
Coming home just now on the H25 from Feltham my real-time phone app showed the next bus in 2 minutes, which I am pleased was correct as it was bloomin' cold. The bus stop display countdown showed the next bus in 22 minutes; do the systems not use the same data input? Generally the phone app seems to be more reliable.
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Post by bookd on Dec 9, 2017 15:12:58 GMT
Or bendybuses?
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