[OSM-talk] Bus sluice/gate (Was: Oxford University use...)

[David Earl]

On 28/11/2007 17:07, Stephen Gower wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 04:20:05PM +0000, David Sheldon wrote:
>> Interestingly, the oxford one only applies 7:30am-6:30pm. However google
>> maps doesn't appear to route you down it ever. In fact they route you
>> down Oriel Square/Merton St, which I didn't think was ever a good route.
>>
>> Should we consider routefinding apps here?
> 
>   Probably, but even outside the restrictive hours, the High is not a
>   primary road by any real definition.  When it's open you'd want to
>   use it if you or your destination were near it, but you wouldn't
>   want to route across Oxford using it (perhaps in the middle of the
>   night, but certainly not just after 1830).

The Cambridge one in Silver Street is even more complicated - it has 
restricted hours which are different in each direction. You can go 
outbound (by motor vehicle) only between 4pm and midnight, and inbound 
6am - 10am and neither in the middle of the day!

Its done that way so that commuter traffic direction is allowed. You'd 
certainly want this as routeable.

David