Route B14 consultation

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TfL have launched a consultation about tweaking the B14's route around Albany Park.

Consultation link

[danorak]

Not really familiar with Albany Park, but is there any particular reason why buses run round in a loop rather than going both ways along Longmead Drive etc? I know this would leave a short section of Bexley Lane unserved but I thought the loop was just a hangover from 492A days.

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Jan 13, 2014 14:11:47 GMT danorak said:

Not really familiar with Albany Park, but is there any particular reason why buses run round in a loop rather than going both ways along Longmead Drive etc? I know this would leave a short section of Bexley Lane unserved but I thought the loop was just a hangover from 492A days.

It's been a fair while since I went round there but they're typical narrow residential streets with parked cars. Running round in both directions is likely to cause buses to get stuck with the inevitable howls of "our cars will get bashed by buses trying to squeeze past each other".

[marlon101]

Jan 13, 2014 14:11:47 GMT danorak said:

Not really familiar with Albany Park, but is there any particular reason why buses run round in a loop rather than going both ways along Longmead Drive etc? I know this would leave a short section of Bexley Lane unserved but I thought the loop was just a hangover from 492A days.

I do know Albany Park rather well and would suggest that Longmead Drive would be by no means problematic in getting cars through. That said, the placing of that bus stop strikes me as precarious opposite Albany Park. It would be better to place the stop in that Albany Park loop IMO and adjust local parking accordingly.

Kimberley Drive is also absolutely fine for getting two buses passed each other (you could get two jumbos through...) but the rest of that loop would be decidedly more dodgy and that is perhaps why a single direction of travel is preferred.

The proposals all seem very agreeable to me. Onslow isn't a fun bit to get a bus down either.