Trapping people in their villages

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[Rhydgaled]

I tend not to risk it even at "Bus Stops" and stick my arm out!

That is sensible, since many (or most?) bus stops are request stops.

[Surrey 455]

In London all bus stops are now request stops. This change happened in the last few years and another forum that I read has reported that it causes a lot of confusion among passengers standing at the white bus stops (previously compulsory stops)

[didcotdean]

Yes this was a change made without any publicity, on the basis that most people used to request the stop anyway (by ringing the bell or sticking out a hand) even when it was a compulsory stop so there was no point making the distinction. Those that are still aware of the old distinction can be more confused since any new bus stop sign erected is of the former compulsory type.

[Red Squirrel]

Hmm. Giants are frightening, aren't they?

[eightf48544]

We have a problem in taplow with three stops in close succesion Westbound on the A4 by the new the new Tescos.

The first with a shelter and timetable but no bus bay. First drivers (75) have been told not to stop at but go onto the new Tescos stop with bus bay. I'm not sure whther they still stop at the next one the station but  it still has a shelter and timetable but the sign is obscured in bushes. There is now only one eastbound stop at Tescos in between the old station and the next both of which have been removed.

RE^▸ (Religious Education) the orignal point of trapping people in villages, it seems to me it is similar problem as on the railways particualry with the call for more new  stations on main lines. How do you run fast Inter Cities with few stops, Regional Expresses with more stops,  in amonst the all station stoppers. Do we have to bite the bullet and build all new stations (unless most trains are going to stop) with platform loops. This was the way one of the last main lines to be built the GC^» (Great Central Railway - link to heritage line) GWR^▸ (Great Western Railway) joint line through from Paddington/Marylebone to Anyho Jn was finshed. There were at least 10 such loops from Paddington to Anyho I bet Chiltern wish many of them were still extant.

It sems to me to be a similar problem applies to buses. Some from town to town via bypasses are REs and the one turning off and serving the villages are all station stoppers. Off peak is probaly not a problem you run one each route alternately, however, in the peak you might have to run both at roughly the same times to enable people to commute. The advantage the bus has you don't have to build loops for the stopper to be overtaken as the RE sails by on the bypass.

You could even by clever timetabling provide a connection from a stopper to the RE in opposite direction at the first stop on the mainroad if they were opposite each other. The only problem I can see is that people will have to cross possibly a busy main road.

[Bmblbzzz]

Latin I believe; comes from statiō which means standing still.

Like static. Or even state and of course both stationary and stationery (the latter cos it shows one's station in life ^ I think  ).

[Bmblbzzz]

Do we have to bite the bullet and build all new stations (unless most trains are going to stop) with platform loops.

We seem very reluctant to bite bullets. Not only on railways (or buses).

[stuving]

Latin I believe; comes from statiō which means standing still.

Like static. Or even state and of course both stationary and stationery (the latter cos it shows one's station in life ^ I think  ).

According to my dictionary (which is pretty big, if that aids credibility) it was used for university bookshops, also supplying writing materials and other scholars' supplies. It was a Latin word for shopkeeper (with a fixed shop, as opposed to pedlar without one) and of course universities did use Latin in everyday life.

I have also heard that it was used for a shop set up at a staging post, or operated by the innkeeper (as it often was). They usually handled mail, which travelled by stagecoach, but I suspect the term was transferred to them from the university usage.