“ Tony B:
I agree with you about having a northbound bus stop much closer to High Barnet station - that's the main part of the article that I don't agree with, because the current arrangements are so difficult for able-bodied people, never mind what it must be like if you find walking up hill more difficult. However, even better would be to divert at least one northbound bus into the station grounds themselves, such as the 384 (the only route that serves all of the key destinations to the north: Barnet High Street, The Spires and Barnet Hospital).
This proposal is better than nothing, but the traffic lights need to be re-timed like the ones outside Cockfosters Station to favour pedestrians crossing Barnet Hill to reach the new bus stop - it's far too long to wait at this crossing currently.
I also appreciate that moving the bus stop would maybe things for inconvenient for QE Girls pupils and Bedford Ave residents, and also leave a long gap on a hill until Barnet Church. Really I don't see why they can't make a new bus stop as well as keeping the old one, even if they are close together.
The Barnet Society states that a stop without a pull-in lay-by would cause traffic delays on Barnet Hill, but this isn't the case with the Underhill stop, as northbound on Barnet Hill is a dual carriageway. Traffic often goes far too fast up that hill anyway. ”