please empty your brain below

I'm in favour of a proper segregated cycling infrastructure. But I am astonished at how uncoordinated and unhurried the construction process is. Not just your local stop, there are various other places (such as outside Queen Mary) where street lighting is disconnected.
Meanwhile, at Aldgate, the junction reconfiguration is causing the worst gridlock I've known. Important bus routes (such as 15) are now unusable as journey times are two/three times as long.
The Aldgate disruption is due to last a year. A year?... I know nothing is as simple as it seems to the simple bystander. But a year?...
Blimey, this again?

London has over 19,000 bus stops.

Maybe you can blog about how your cornflakes are not all the same size?
I actually used the w/b bus stop which is now just a dolly stop. As we approached on a 425 I was dubious as to whether there was even a bus stop there! Of course there is nothing to say what routes stop there, where they go or when anything is due. Still at least there is a stop!

Having travelled right through to Kings Cross on a 205 I got my first sight of how extensive the CSH works are. No wonder things are in chaos and I had a pretty long wait for a 205.

And just for info TfL have today implemented emergency changes to the 205 and 254. This is to avoid the "mess" at Aldgate.

205 runs via Commercial Road and misses Aldgate and Liverpool St completely. 254 is curtailed to Whitechapel / Cambridge Heath Road and won't serve Royal London Hospital and Aldgate.
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Just to offset any moaners, I am pleased that you are still on the case. All power to your elbow!

The bigger picture, of shambolic implementation of cycle lanes, exemplified by some comments here, is of course important too.
Presumably there was some sort of schedule or plan of works for the changes here. I doubt it was intended to take quite so long. What has gone wrong? Or is this typical? Why are you still waiting for someone to connect up the electrics, or resurface a few metres of cycle lane?

The JKL changes will give us an opportunity to see if lessons have been learned.
By contrast, the new cycle-friendly layout along Tavistock Place in Camden has gone in, complete with road resurfacing, new traffic lights and No Entry signs at half a dozen junctions, and little 'armadillos' separating the cycle lane from the traffic, in roughly a week.
And it's only a trial.

So it's apparently _possible_ to do these things quickly and efficiently.
"Paul": DG can be rather local sometimes, but at least I can learn from these posts that TfL and their contractors are really doing a bad job. And his posts had attracted me to an extent that I REALLY intended to visit Bow when I was in London a fortnight ago.
@ Patrickov

"REALLY intended to visit Bow" ...rest assured you didn't miss-out on anything!
As a known commentator on TfL, doesn't anyone in TfL look at these posts? DG is providing regular and detailed comments and a pretty lacklustre project, which is relfecting badly on TfL. Whilst TfL will be relying on its contractors to do the work, if I was the project manager, I would be keen for some external feedbck on my contractors performance, and as a result, I would be kicking them to get this sorted ASAP.

Or perhaps the project is actually going well and what DG is seeing is actually better than other locations !!
I don't usually comment, but I do get upset about about people who make vapid criticisms about DG's content. Disagree and have a lively discussion by all means, but don't just snipe. As someone who used to write for a living, I really appreciate the effort it must take. In the few years since I've been reading, I don't think DG has missed a day.

Incidentally, all four of us at home are regular readers. It did however take us a while to realise that some of your commenters are actually comic creations. We're particularly fond of the Katie Hopkins Blue Witch character, and we still chuckle about the time she berated others for patronising her! Fabulous! Keep it up!
DG, you are welcome to blog about the size of individual cornflakes if you so choose, but the maths would be beyond my comprehension. :)
@ JC - I think you can take it as read that TfL keep an eye on all sorts of comment about their organisation across a wide range of media / social media / blogs etc. Senior managers and directors are often (silent) members of discussion forums plus the Press and PR department will also keep "watch". Ditto for journalists keeping an eye on knowledgeable people commenting on forums and Twitter etc.

You'd be surprised what can go on behind closed doors. What TfL can't do, of course, is control what is said by DG and I suspect they gave up any notion of "getting him on side" long ago given DG's famous disdain of PR contact / communication.










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