(26 Feb 2022, 9:27 am)tvd wrote All these problems with congestion made me think how good it is if you have a well-designed bus station.

The one I use most in Middlesbrough, and it's horseshoe design with stands on the inner and outer give lots of space and usually no need for buses to reverse.  Plenty of layover space in the middle.  I don't know why other towns haven't copied this type of design, because it seems like pretty much a perfect bus station to me.

I suppose its what space you have to work with.... you couldn't exactly use the design at boro at the haymarket as there just isnt the space.  Looking at it the haymarket was designed to keep pedestrians safe rather than any though of when 2 buses wish to use the same stand.
Speak of which i know some might think its a pain but if the 309 and 310 sometimes clash why not put them on different stands?  Not miles away from each other but may q and r for example... so separate but still close enough for passengers to react to the fist one that comes if they were travelling to the coast road for example?