(31 Jan 2025, 11:21 pm)Andreos1 wrote Inconveniencing the car user in the hope it encourages a modal shift/makes buses look better is a bizarre methodology. 

I'm not sure it has ever worked either.

Depends how you build them though. I don't agree with slowing down cars but there's many places where we have roads which are 3 lane wide or numerous parking spaces which are serving businesses/hospitals miles away.

https://www.google.com/maps/@54.9801983,...?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDEyOS4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D - Like that's the sort of prime spot for one to boost the 1

https://www.google.com/maps/@54.9933075,...?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDEyOS4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D - or here on Benfield Road - just remove the hatching

https://www.google.com/maps/@54.9968005,...?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDEyOS4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D - or here, easily 3 lanes

https://www.google.com/maps/@55.0392702,...?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDEyOS4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D - or here build a bus gate out

https://www.google.com/maps/@54.9827197,...?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDEyOS4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D - or here on Chillingham Road

That's just 5 which are all massive bottlenecks. I don't agree with the old take a lane, make car journeys longer and punish them approach though but that's usually reserved for bikes anyway.