Liverpool City Centre Traffic Issues

[Bevan Price]

RE: Liverpool City Centre Traffic Issues
The other thing that would help at Queen Square is to get rid of the metal barriers next to stands 1-8, so that 2 buses could load at the same time at many of the stands. For example, at stand 8, if a 20 & 21 arrive almost simultaneously, the second bus has to wait whilst the first bus loads. But that second bus then often blocks other buses from overtaking, and causes a queue of buses to develop, buses often being delayed for a few minutes.

Doubtless some "safety geek official" would whinge that removing barriers would be dangerous, but (as a onetime workplace safety http://dartslf.com/forum/showthread.php?...ge=3rep.), I would reject that claim - indeed I would suggest that some barriers make the situation more hazardous rather than safer...

And removing the lights at each end of Queen Square would help, instead providing zebra crossings for pedestrians. (Large numbers of pedestrians ignore those lights, crossing the road as soon as they see a gap between buses.)
(Of course they won't do that, because some misguided "experts" seem to have decreed - and convinced council officials - that loads of traffic lights are the solution for all traffic problems.)