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- someone else on here can almost certainly be of more help than I can)
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Anzir Boodoo <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu Dec 30, 2004 00:28:01 Europe/London
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [UTSG] Bus station design and traffic management in CBD
> area
>
> Hongwei,
> On Friday, Dec 17, 2004, at 08:38 Europe/London, Hongwei Li wrote:
>
>> I need some examples about bus station design and traffic management
>> in CBD
>> area, which include how to separate Peds and Buses, supply enough
>> parking
>> spaces, rearrange traffic movement……….
>
> Sorry for the delay... I think there are two main types of bus station
> design which fully separate buses and pedestrians. One is the Drive In
> Reverse Out (DIRO) type, favoured by Metro, which you will see all
> over West Yorkshire.
>
> The second is the grade separated type, which is like the old Bradford
> Interchange (before they rebuilt it, though the new one still retains
> some of the characteristics). The only other examples I can think of
> (though there may be many more) are in Corby (now abandoned, I have a
> recent photo still in my camera), Hammersmith, London (though
> apparently this is soon to be changed as it is too congested) and
> Redditch. All are linked to shopping centres and consist of a central
> island which buses circulate. This then has a stair and escalator
> connection to an upper or lower level where the entrance is.
>
> Traffic management takes so many different forms that it is difficult
> to really talk about. I have just finished reading a book:
>
> Title: City centre planning and public transport: case studies from
> Britain, Germany and France
> Author: Simpson, Barry J
> Publisher Place: Wokingham
> Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold
> Publisher Date: 1988
>
> which has examples of the different ways in which traffic management
> can be carried out in association with pedestrianisation or Metro /
> tramway development (admittedly it's a bit old - Birmingham in
> particular has changed a lot since the book was written). One of the
> concepts in the book is that of cells, in which buses from different
> areas terminate in different parts of the city/town centre with
> pedestrianised streets within. A parallel system exists for cars. A
> similar system for cars is in use in Leeds, where cars can only enter
> the city loop at certain points, and largely have to come out onto the
> loop again in order to go to another part of the city core. A cell
> like system for buses is in use in Birmingham, where buses from the
> north tend to terminate in the north of the city centre, traversing a
> series of interlocking loops (making it difficult to know where to
> change buses). In Nottingham this is accompanied by a series of nodes
> where many services terminate, and services (green and navy blue
> lines) which go around most of them.
>
> Some smaller cities, such as Reading and Milton Keynes, have a central
> bus loop which most services use. Within this, almost all streets are
> pedestrianised.
>
> Many of the New Towns adopt a stricter separation, in which car parks
> are built around a central loop road, with virtually no vehicular
> movements within it (such as Bracknell). This is not seen to be very
> good for the evening economy, where the presence of traffic is seen to
> increase the level of activity and "surveillance" of streets, leading
> to a perception of better personal safety. The strict separation is
> not always possible where there isn't a comprehensive redevelopment,
> because things such as car parks, or facilities requiring vehicle
> movements are not going to fall tidily within a defined area. Some
> other towns have managed something similar (such as Slough) by
> pedestrianising the main street and having buses and cars use a
> parallel route with car parks and a bus station. However, I think this
> would depend on there being only one main street.
>
> I hope this helps
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> Anzir Boodoo MRes MILT Aff. IRO
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