Hi all,
I presume therefore the theory is that if one gets the trucks off the road quicker, there will be more room for the buses.

Like all or at least most road planners, they forget that if you allow a mode to move quicker, then more of the same mode will fill the space created.

Bit of a catch 22 really, except that the theory doesn’t include passenger transport vehicles.

Unlike Perth for example where more and more bus lanes are being provided.
The police during a blitz here fined a heap of I dots and cautioned many more, for driving in the bus lanes during the restricted times.
This blitz was done at the behest of the PTA because they were made aware of the problem by the bus operators.

Should be more of it (Blitzes I mean).

BUT of course we in the west have no idea of how to operate and manage passenger transport.
Ask the TfNSW, they’ll tell you and everyone else that they are the only experts in the land.

Bob in Perth

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Or looking at this beat-up another way:
More than 90% of buses on time
The routes with worst late-running are the cross-regional services where there's a long distance across a slice of suburbia with a lot of traffic and complexity, which is what you'd expect.
Buses typically don't have traffic priority. The NSW government has taken the technology developed for prioritising buses and is now giving it to trucks.

Tony P

On Monday, 16 July 2018 14:21:36 UTC+10, Greg Sutherland wrote:

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/late-every-time-sydney-s-worst-bus-revealed-20180704-p4zphp.html