Busaholic
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Interesting, as my opinion remains that in much of central London it is decidedly sub-optimal. One thing that would provide massive improvement would be moving stops to traffic lights with a box junction immediately before the lights so that the bus can always get out at the lights and not be held up by queues.
So much has changed since I did that unexalted job that I wouldn't presume to know the answer, but I will just say that when I went up to Preston to see my in-laws at the time when I was doing the job I used to marvel at the positioning of bus stops, both Preston Corporation and Ribble, but particularly the former. Preston was beginning to replace crew deckers with opo single deckers, mostly 33 ft, but seemed to have no regard to how this might affect the stops, both from a driver's and a passenger's point of view, and there was definitely a huge cultural difference between London and Preston. Preston used to position bus stops immediately before traffic lights, mere feet away, which would never have been allowed in London, and I have to say the efficacy never outweighed the dangers to my way of thinking. Red light jumping by buses was something I'd rarely seen before, and I was shocked!