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Those darn illegal bus-stop parkers! You know, the ones from the MBTA and the department in charge of parking tickets
By adamg on Mon, 06/28/2010 - 11:00am
The Globe reports a tougher law aimed at keeping people from parking at MBTA bus stops hasn't much worked. Then again, if MBTA and Boston Transportation Department workers are ignoring the law, why shouldn't the public? One of our roving reporters took these photos at Brigham Circle a couple weeks ago.
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Gotta love the fact that both
Gotta love the fact that both of them are right next to a hydrant as well. If you are gonna fail, make it an epicfail.
Bus stop parkers
"Do what we say, not what we do"
Does it matter?
The #1 bus stop at Mass Ave and Landsdowne St is always clear, and I've never seen the bus pull more than halfway into it (thus blocking the bike AND car lane). I figured they were using some magic narrow bus that doesn't need bus stops, but maybe there's more to it than that.
Jay: It's the curse of not
Jay:
It's the curse of not having dedicated bus lanes. Drivers are rated, in part, on their ability to keep to the schedule. So if they pull all the way over to the curb, they're often screwed - it may take them several minutes to spot a gap in traffic, and pull back into the flow. That incentivizes them to pull halfway over, blocking off half the lane, which makes pulling back into traffic a cinch. But it's tough for the disabled, dangerous for cyclists, and a pain in the neck for anyone driving.
There are more than a few spots in the city that would benefit from Bus Rapid Transit. It's a shame that the community support just isn't there yet, because it would solve an awful lot of problems.
Seattle drivers must yield to buses re-entering the travel lane
Cynic, that's over-kill: dedicated bus lanes.
In Seattle, buses have the absolute right-of-way when leaving a bus stop and re-entering the travel lane. Automobiles must yield to these buses, so the bus loses no trip time pulling fully into the bus stop, close to the curb.
As far as the Fraudulent Bus (so-called) Rapid Transit goes, there has been no community support because the MBTA has been a manifest failure at designing, implementing, and operating it.
uh, what?
So if they pull all the way over to the curb, they're often screwed - it may take them several minutes to spot a gap in traffic, and pull back into the flow.
What?
I've never been on a bus that has taken more than ~15 seconds to merge back into traffic.
Most drivers just put on their turn signal, watch their mirror, and slowly roll out. Eventually someone chickens and stops for the bus.
2nd Photo
That second photo is definitely not Brigham Circle. That's the Symphony Bus stop on Huntington. You can see the YMCA & Northeastern in the background.