Durham City planning eggheads have it cracked
I can’t help questioning plans in Durham City to make its public transport system more efficient.
In the Sunderland Echo this week a raft of improvements to the road system as part of £5million project called Transit 15 were revealed.
These improvements were big and numerous. They included new traffic lights on the A177, the widening of of crossroads at Stockton Road, the expansion of a pedestrian island and the moving of kerbs in the area.
The killer line of this story appears at the end.
It said: “It is thought the work will cut journey times at peak times from city centre-bound buses by more then 100 seconds.”
Wow, a whole 100 seconds. That’s getting onto two minutes!
With those sort of efficiencies, the commuters of Durham will now be able to almost boil an egg in the time saved on journeys. Something that before this £5million project was just the stuff of a madman’s dream.
Why don’t they run a £1million ad campaign, aimed at getting old ladies to find their bus passes at the stop and have them ready to show the driver when the bus arrives? That would then save £4million in costs and considerably more than 100 seconds per journey.