please empty your brain below
Where the North Circular Road crosses the A1010 (Fore Street) there once stood a very large cinema/theatre, the Regal which had nearly 3000 seats and was used for films and stage shows. Demolished in 1985, on the site now is a Lidl store. I still have memories of going to concerts at the old Regal.
There can be no best strategy for choosing between closely spaced buses. If there was such a strategy, passengers would all use it, and that chosen bus would get more loaded, and lose...
I'm still enjoying the North Circular series, by the way. Spin it out as much as you like.
You didn't mention that the Palmers Green crossroads used to be called "The Cock". Always caused schoolboy hilarity in my schooldays. I wonder if the clockhouse name is somehow derived from that.
In times past you could have continued from the Billet up Wadham Rd, beside the NCR, on the old 144 before it swung off down Hale End Road. Sadly that old "round the corner" link vanished without replacement.
They were still pulling down the stands at the Dog Track the other week when I passed by on a bus. The old car park site is now being hoarded off and equipped with 24 hour security so it looks like the long promised bus garage and car dealership might start getting built very soon.
Intrigued as to how you are planning to complete the NCR in one bus - or even two. Only three very short lengths of the current NCR are served by buses (123, 262/366, and 474) from this point, so either there's a lot of walking involved (not that pedestrians are allowed on some stretches) or you are following parallel streets to east or west.
Had you gone on to the bus station I'd have expected the W19 and 474 (closely following the original NCR) but alighting at the Bell strongly suggests your next bus is a 123, which will only get you to Ilford, still two buses away from North Woolwich.
No doubt the answer is "none of the above".
Unlike near us, where they demolished a lot of sturdy semis alongside the A40 a few years ago and then cancelled the widening scheme, so traffic continues to back up past the White City Estate towards the elevated Westway.
Getting back on topic, I have found that sometimes if you get a closely following bus, when there should have been a gap, they later tranfer the passengers from one bus and put them in the other, so the spare bus can then get some where to get back onto time table. Looks as if dg was lucky though.
For a recent alternative approach see: http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~jjb/buses/buses.html&locale=en-us
..with all the maths at: http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~jjb/papers/Bartholdi-Eisenstein-2011.pdf
I wonder which mathematical model is used by Tfl!
TridentScan | Privacy Policy