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A crossing guard (North American English), [1] lollipop man/lady/person (British, Irish, and Australian English), [2] [3] or school road patrol (New Zealand English) [4] is a traffic management personnel who is normally stationed on busy roadways to aid pedestrians.
Words with specific British English meanings that have different meanings in American and/or additional meanings common to both languages (e.g. pants, cot) are to be found at List of words having different meanings in American and British English. When such words are herein used or referenced, they are marked with the flag [DM] (different meaning).
A bus-based public transport system designed to improve capacity and reliability relative to a conventional bus system. Bus station or bus depot A structure where city or intercity buses stop to pick up and drop off passengers. Bus stop A designated place where buses stop for passengers to board or alight from it. Business route or city route
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Bretonside bus station: Plymouth: Closed Brighouse bus station: Brighouse: 6 [6] Operating Bristol bus station: Bristol: Operating Broadmarsh bus station: Nottingham: Operating Burnley bus station: Burnley: 18 [7] Operating Bury Interchange: Bury: 19 [8] Bury tram stop: Operating Canterbury Bus Station Canterbury 25 Operating Castleford bus ...
Bus passenger numbers continued to decline in the 1960s. The Transport Act 1968 was an attempt to rationalise publicly owned bus services and provide a framework for the subsidy of uneconomic but socially necessary services. The Act: transferred the English and Welsh bus companies of the Transport Holding Company to the new National Bus Company
Bus stands are seen at different busy spots, like school or college gates, markets, medical centres and the crossing point(s) of two or more roads. A bus stand is usually employed to allow a bus to lay over at a bus terminus, without giving the appearance of being in service, or blocking the stop from use by other buses that are in service. Bus ...
A non-primary road sign near Bristol shows Guildford Rules patches.Road signs in the United Kingdom and in its associated Crown dependencies and overseas territories conform broadly to European design norms, with a number of exceptions: direction signs omit European route numbers, and road signs generally use the imperial system of units (miles and yards), unlike the rest of Europe (kilometres ...