There's every reason why North Quay bus lane is needed (From Dorset Echo)

There's every reason why North Quay bus lane is needed

1:50pm Saturday 30th January 2010 in

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I MUST respond to Simon Avery's letter (‘We need answers’, Your Say, January 16) about the bus lane at North Quay, Weymouth.

I did not attend the council meeting where this was discussed, but as it was related to me the need for a bus lane on the north side of the harbour is really quite logical.

The removal of the roundabout by Asda and its replacement with traffic lights will result in traffic jams , much like the Dorchester Road and Littlemoor Road junction.

Therefore the buses must be given a priority route around the inevitable hold-up. Simple.

I also have been told that the bus lane will be closed to all other traffic 24 hours a day - the logic of that escapes me.

While on the subject of bus lanes, why is it an offence to enter a bus lane, even briefly, when it would make more sense for the offence to be ‘stationary in a bus lane’.

Why, say, on the seafront by the clock tower, are cars that wish to go straight on forced to sit in the queue, creating extra pollution when they can see their way ahead clear?

Howard Cogan, Gatcombe Close, Dorchester.