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Originally Posted by coops
I totally agree with you Harry!  |
Well, if everybody in Manchester including those running the scheme is as negative as the other contributors in this thread, it will fail of course.
It seems to be the old story of the glass half empty/half full.
Like Hal, I see buses on my feeder route almost empty most of the time. That's because three of them serve a loop route which one could just about serve. The reason for that is the benefit, not having to wait a long time for the next bus, and that's the difference with me, a willingness to acknowledge the benefit as much as the downside.
When cycling to my nearest shopping centre the main route is congested with fast traffic and the narrow cycle lane at the edge of the road has road island pinch points. But I don't have to use that, there's another cycle route running parallel on very quiet suburban roads which drops me just short of the supermarket, avoiding all traffic lights, that route found with the free cycle route maps, another benefit paid for by the congestion charge.
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