Queen Square Bus Station

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RE: Queen Square Bus Station

(14/02/2015 18:20)SL64 JDZ (4593) Wrote:  That could work although in hindsight that would create a bottleneck at the crossing with two lanes merging into one

What I meant was to maintain a single inbound lane, but move the lane to where the lay-by is now, move the lay-by into the large area of pavement and then move the central barrier upto the edge of the new inbound lane. That then frees up the space to create 2 outbound lanes facing St George's Hall; the London Road services can use the left lane and Lime Street services can take the right lane- there wouldn't be a bottleneck per se, as the capacity of the section of road between the central crossing and the St Georges Hall traffic lights effectively increases by over 50% owing to extra space to stop at stands, or wait for the lights to change; you could therefore in theory accomodate 4 loading buses and then 10-12 other buses in the traffic queue in this area of the bus station alone.

Moving the lay-by into the pavement would allow space to extend it to the central crossing, so that allows 1 extra vehicle to alight passengers, whilst maintaining the same sized road as before. As far as I'm aware, buses alighting passengers here is not a major issue?