Here’s stupid bus stop number 1, the first of what may become an occasional series.

The problem here is that the bus stop, as marked out on the road, is exactly the same length as bus give or take 10mm! But this is only a problem because there is ‘no run’ in or ‘run out’ area. The car parked at the rear of the bus is legally parked, as is the car parked at the front of the bus. Whoever made the decision to lay the stop out like this was obvioulsy very familar with large ships and totally unfamiliar with buses. They need to be told that buses don’t have side thrusters to allow docking without either forward or backward movement.

The stop shown here is at a point where two routes join together and if the bus is running on time it is scheduled to wait at the stop for up to 7 minutes. In fact it waits in the road as shown in the photo and causes a bit of chaos. The stop on the other side of the road (you can just about see another bus there) is exactly the same and that bus is also parked in the road.

And to make matters even worse there is a pedstrian crossing in between the two stops on either side of the road!