The bus stops in Newbridge Road have undergone some alterations to build a small slope extending approximately six feet into the road. Presumably to allow wheelchair users to be level with the bus floor.
However, when the X39 bus from Bristol pulls up at the newly created bus stop and lowers the entry platform for passengers to embark it comes below the surface of the new area.
Thus people have to step down to get into the bus.
This means that particular bus at that particular bus stop could lower its entry platform to the old existing kerb height with no need for the new construction. While the bus was stationary, traffic either passed it by crossing over the white hatched area in the centre of the road, or had to wait until oncoming traffic ceased or the bus pulled out.
This new structure has added to road congestion and cost money. Another own goal for B&NES?
I think this is a very deliberate ploy by BaNES council, to help it justify the building of the Bath Rapid Transport scheme. Delays to traffic on Newbridge Road only support their argument for the construction of an alternative route through resident's back gardens.
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