Travelling by Bus in London
Travelling in London isn't easy. Places can be far apart, the tube
is expensive and overcrowded during the rush hours, and the roads
are full of people using their cars to drive everywhere despite
the congestion charge. Thankfully, bus lanes are still going strong
in many parts of London, and although the old Routemaster bus has
been confined to a single tourist run in central London, a fleet
of red vehicles of various shapes and sizes still continue to crawl
along the many roads of the capital in an attempt to move people
from one place to another.
There are currently plans to improve the bus service in various
ways, with CCTV already having been installed on most if not all
buses. Onboard dot matrix signs indicating the route number, destination
and next stop should start to appear in 2009, with automated announcements
also being a possibility for the future. Meanwhile, the communications
network currently used to provide the countdown system at bus stops
is to be developed further, with GPS being used to pin-point the
location of buses while various forms of wireless communication
will be used to keep drivers, passengers and bus controllers up
to date as to what is going on. |
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