I READ Glenn Woods’ letter in the Journal concerning the guided busway where he points out the glaringly obvious ‘oversight’ on the part of the planners that they ‘forgot’ to build bridges over the roads that the busway crosses and that it will cross at ground level with traffic lights on already heavily congested infrastructure.
Mr Woods says that the developers don’t realise the implications of the buses crossing these very busy A roads. These statements are very naive.
True, building bridges would have been more costly, but money is not the issue or the reason they didn’t build them.
The name bus priority is the giveaway. Priority means privilege/special right.
So all motorists sit nose to tail gridlocked in their cars while the bus crosses our road unimpeded with probably one passenger on board.
This is done in the hope that it will encourage us all to travel by bus.
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