(Yesterday, 7:12 am)Kimlfixit wrote You are confusing cause, effect and purpose.

Bus lanes don’t exist because buses aren’t viable, they exist to make them reliable. 

Without more priority, buses get delayed by congestion, become unpredictable, and more people stop using them, which increases car traffic. That’s a policy failure, not evidence buses don’t work.

Take cars off the road and the bus lanes dont need to exist. 

Making life difficult for car drivers doesn't encourage the modal switch. 

If operators can get the basic, fundamentals right, then passengers will make the switch back to public transport. 

The reason people switched to cars, was because buses didn't work for them. Not because there wasn't a bus lane. 

Ridership has been declining for decades. And it's not because there wasn't a bus lane.

The correlation between increase in car usage and decline in passenger numbers is clear to see. The introduction and growth of bus priority measures hasn't stemmed the decline.