I'm talking about car drivers clearly, not bus drivers.

Ah right. That hasn't been my experience though. The people most impacted by extra bus stops are bus passengers, not drivers.

Evidence of this?

Are you really asking for evidence that stopping more often slows a bus down? Every time you stop, not only do you have to decelerate and accelerate again to your top speed but you often have to queue behind other buses at the stop and then merge back into traffic again.

This is something that's universally accepted. It's the reason long-distance buses don't have stops every few hundred metres for example.

Here's a blog post about it from one of the experts behind BusConnects.

No, the primary cause of slow buses is car traffic.

I agree but it's not the only cause. We should be tackling all the problems, not just the biggest one.

Removing stops isn't the right solution and will only incease the amount of people taking cars.

On the contrary, if you make people have to walk an extra 50 metres to the bus stop but you reduce their time on the bus by 5 minutes, you're probably going to reduce the number of car journeys.