Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
People queue politely for a bus in Crouch End
Not at every bus stop but the main ones on the High Street have orderly queues. This used to be the standard social convention before. It's fair, efficient and polite yet elsewhere in Haringey standards have dropped. What is unique about Crouch End that means its inhabitants have remained civilised? What changed?
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Permalink Reply by Hugh
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Really? To be honest, I've not noticed any difference nor experienced any particular problems either side of the railway.
Yes, queues are no longer orderly lines (were they ever?), but are loose huddles in the area around a bus stop. I rarely if ever catch a bus in the rush hour: this being the case, I never witness passengers being unable to board. I've long assumed this explains the relaxed queueing style. Is it very different in the rush hours?
Is the issue purely a relationship between passenger numbers and bus capacity at any given moment at any particulate location? Or are you suggesting there is another explanation?
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson
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I regularly catch the bus from the stop near the clock tower or the stop outside Texaco and haven’t noticed any difference to any other bus stops.
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Permalink Reply by Ozbawn
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About 10 years ago someone pointed this out to me at the bus stop in front of the park near Dunns bakery (where Barclays used to be). It still happens although more often in the morning peak hour rush. A curious anomaly now unfortunately.
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The morning rush hour W7 queues disintegrate at the Stroud Green bus stop past the Old Dairy opposite Sainsbury's in my experience. Probably because you then have 4 bus options not one.
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Pavements are narrow as space given to 4 lanes of motor vehicles. Cars give priority by Haringey's traffic policies ?
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Permalink Reply by Sarah
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I think there are orderly queues at the Finsbury Park bus station too. Elsewhere, not so much.
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Permalink Reply by Chris brock
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Here on "the wrong side of the tracks" one of the problems I see on Green Lanes is the amount of pavement clutter. Displays from shops, restaurant tables, bins (not really clutter, but you know what I mean), all of which place obstacles in the path of a neat straight line that a good queue requires. Lack of bus shelter, particularly outside Iceland on GL mean this time of year many people also huddle in the shop doorway, making the "queue" more of a 3-D block than a nice straight line. I'm not sure behavioural standards have dropped, as I read from the post, it's just that it is more difficult to maintain
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