please empty your brain below
moaning about that in considerable detail .... haha what you do best

Caroline | 21.09.24 - 10:03 a.m. | #

It seems that bureaucracy and the needs of 'the system' has removed agency at ground level (do we need to start the emergency schedules today Y/N), after all buses are frequently disrupted by unplanned events that need resolving in real time.

As it is passengers have their journeys disrupted for no reason - but everyone did the right thing.

Still Anon | 21.09.24 - 10:53 a.m. | #

A big problem with roundabouts with more than two lanes is that traffic has difficulty reaching the inner lane and getting back out of it. This usually means that traffic lights will be added throughout but it is not clear they are doing that.

dg writes: there are already traffic lights throughout.

kev | 21.09.24 - 1:04 p.m. | #

7am!! Couldn’t they at least make it 8-5? Or perhaps 8-7 and finish it a bit quicker?

Nick | 21.09.24 - 1:10 p.m. | #

Around me bus stops are repeatedly closed with nothing going on nearby because the work has either been cancelled or starts days later. It would be lovely to see temporary stops brought back but now it's go to the next stop and try your luck there. In Putney works regularly shut 2 consecutive stops, the first one being the actual start of the 378 on Putney Bridge.

ap | 21.09.24 - 3:57 p.m. | #

The standard of driving in Tower Hamlets is bad enough at the best of times. I dread to think what the frustrated boy racers in their BMWs and Audis will make of these delays.

Auntie Susan | 21.09.24 - 7:19 p.m. | #

TfL have a recent history of consulting on relatively minor junction changes in enormous detail. Which is not a bad thing, most of the time they ignore cut-and-paste responses but did seem to listen to any sensible / constructive / well-argued responses, and the end result did tend to end up as an improvement. I haven't seen anything on the changes at this junction, which is unusual - either it was buried deep on page 94 of the Silvertown consultation so passed largely unnoticed, or the mood in TfL has shifted away from long and maybe costly 'engagement' to just implementing changes without testing.

David | 21.09.24 - 8:54 p.m. | #

Thank you for this. I shared it with my street WhatsApp - here in Stratford that is very useful information. Meanwhile in Birmingham our son is moaning at the planned closure of the tram line he uses (library to Edgbaston) for a week due to the Conservative Party conference. Buses are also being diverted causing a real headache.

Joan | 22.09.24 - 8:40 a.m. | #

David: was there a 'beware of the leopard' sign?

Leo | 22.09.24 - 9:15 a.m. | #

David is partly correct. The works are being done under the mitigation measures section of the Silvertown Tunnel Order which requires TfL to run their plans past The STIG and the Secretary of State and not bother with the general public.

STIG is the Silvertown Tunnel Implementation Group, a group of people representing the inner London boroughs. They publish some meeting notes but the scheme plans are absent.

I would not expect TfL to ever change its consultation addiction for other schemes.

Graham | 22.09.24 - 9:43 p.m. | #

I’m delighted to say that a yellow poster has just been added at Bus Stop M to say that route 8 hasn’t been stopping here for the last two weeks.

The information is mostly correct, apart from two references to the DLR station (which route 8 has never served).

diamond geezer | Homepage | 23.09.24 - 10:56 a.m. | #











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