Average bus speeds in London have reached a ten-year low. Despite promises and targets to speed buses up, no progress has been made.
The obvious problem is, buses are stuck in traffic. But there is a little-known rule about traffic management: if you give traffic more space, it doesn’t speed it up, you just get more traffic. Attempts to tackle congestion by adding in more road lanes fail, for example, because more traffic fills up the new lanes.
