Why poor public transport policy is putting the brake on cities | Letters

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David Andrews suggests a tram network could be the answer to London’s clogged streets, while V Narayanan states unused cycle lanes are a waste of valuable road space Your analysis of slowing buses in global cities sets out the mechanism exactly, and the remedy follows from it ( London buses in decline? The report also notes that Why public transport in global cities is slowing to a crawl – visualised, 23 September ). Transport for London’s own calculation that a 10% fall in speed costs 6% of demand and Imperial College London’s finding of the same decline across 15 cities show what happens to buses as the traffic thickens around them. Retiming the lights is expected to not reverse it, and London is already trying. The phrase to notice in the article is one used by TfL: signals is expected to give more buses priority “where possible”.

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