South East Plan - SE Plan

Fastway = White Elephant

July 30th, 2005 at 02:48pm Under Horley Master Plan+ The South East Plan

Local people (especially my friends) are really starting to moan about the Fastway Bus Route (now something like £5,000,000 over budget, I hear though I will check to make sure that’s correct ). Now that some of the new bus stops are starting to go in on the roads, we are noticing that they are not indented as all good bus stops should be - no, they are out dented. Further crippling the flow of traffic. Because buses struggle to pull out into traffic. THIS IS HORLEY NOT PARIS!! There just isn’t that much traffic in our ghost town! At least not until they put in out dented bus stops and the traffic gets grid locked every time the bus stops to pick up the SINGLE passenger that wants to use it for that week.

The fastway bus is going to be a massive white elephant. I just cannot see people being winkled out of their cars to get on a bus that doesn’t cover most of the surrounding area. Most people will have to drive to their nearest bust stop.

And this in the name of global warming?? We are made to feel guilty about using our cars when air travel is on the increase, every airport in the country wants to expand and allow more flights and pollute god only knows how many more times than cars do.

This is not the answer in my eyes.

By Jez 3 comments

Horley / Crawley Fastway Bus…

July 4th, 2005 at 02:43pm Under Horley Master Plan+ The South East Plan

…Or Gatwick Airport’s staff bus???

Call me bitter but this seems an awful lot of money and disruption for Gatwick to shuttle their staff about! I expect that no one has noticed that a lot of Gatwick workers work shifts? Will there be a Fastway Bus available to take someone home at 4 am?

No.

I love Wikipedia. Just found this on Fastway if you are unfamiliar with what it’s all about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawley_Fastway

By Jez 3 comments

Fastway Bus Route

July 2nd, 2005 at 12:29pm Under Horley Master Plan+ The South East Plan

It will be interesting to see if the Fastway bus route has any impact on traffic, good or bad - it’s certainly bad at the moment with all the disruption of building it.

Locally to me, the Fastway model is causing bad feelings as everyone that I have spoken to is sceptical about whether people will actually use it or not. I doubt it will make one iota of difference. In Horley, the bus is always empty - I can’t see it suddenly getting full!

If people DO start to use the bus more - are the Government going to impose a bus congestion charge as they are talking about with trains? I haven’t heard anything so ridiculous in ages! It shows how out of touch the powers that be are. They must think that we don’t notice the irony of this latest proposed congestion charge.

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