look at 0.58 and just a few seconds after at the pedestrian crossing watch the steering wheel give it some thats gunna cost the council just as much in n/s tyers!!!
@coleys4 and @dajwilkinson I live in Adelaide Australia and we have this same system of transport. We have been running it for over 25 years and have had only 2 accidents even with there being many night services (every 15 minutes until 1130pm). It has been proven many times that this is one, if not, the safest public transport medium in the world. It also encourages use of public buses as we have over two million passengers a year on busway services.
And this setup is different from a train/tram in what way, exactly? (Don't say tyres - I've seen pneumatic tyres on Paris Metro trains). How long will it last? During construction, a 150-year-old railway bridge needed replacing, according to the publicity at the time. So a railway would last 150 years. I'll give this 15 years before oil crises make the service uneconomic or weather damage writes off the guides.
why?... this bloody bus way stole this route from the railways. why?! is this what we sucome to? a bloddy bus on concrete rails? this was a massive waste of money, the railway track was already there and so where the stations, they wasted money by ripping up these rails, it would have been cheeper to re-open the railway line
Park Lane in Histon, to Cambridge Regional College, Cambridge, is about two miles. It takes just over 4 mins on the bus down the guideway. A local passenger train service travelling the 2 miles would take just about 3 mins. Which is quicker?
OK so what happens if a animal dies on the track bed / debris from a falling tree / vandals place something in the path or what happens if a bus gets a puncture, to many problems I see here
you are right there many problams such as the bus breaking down, In Leigh Wigan Counsil GMPTE & Labour Govamant r talking about these busway that'll take people to Manchester well the busway is only going as far Ellenbrooke the goes on the East Lancs many people are kicking off about it though me being one of them who prefer to have railway broat bak to Leigh or have metrolink tramway
@coleys4 It's a bad design pure and simple. Suppose a guided bus breaks down at night with an electrical failure. This leaves no lights on the bus and there is no busway lighting. It would be easy for another bus to hit it - there are no signals to protect them - and even if the second bus stops in time, it can't overtake or turn round. Then there's the matter of getting emergency services to the site... If the solution had to be buses, a bus-lane-only road would have made far more sense!
@coleys4 those problems happen on railways and tramways as well. Vandals always put things on railway tracks, and as we all know many delays on the railways have been caused by leaves on the line, and fallen trees!
@coleys4 - presumably the same/similar emergency/maintenance response that it would require if it was a train line? I'm guessing they've factored in the buses needing to reverse occasionally!
@coleys4 So your telling me that a train never has that problem? In fact a train is a lot more dangerous because it takes miles to stop.... A bus can brake, they travel at 60 mph and brake, if there is a dead animal they run it over.. why would a dead animal affect the bus? If there is a tree in the way it brakes, like on roads, the driver controls the bus with the brakes and accelerator i'm sure
What a pile of crap. What is wrong with a combined train and tram system?
rpicking 2 months ago
No sound, no watch.
sjtom57 6 months ago
look at 0.58 and just a few seconds after at the pedestrian crossing watch the steering wheel give it some thats gunna cost the council just as much in n/s tyers!!!
harryanderson1991 8 months ago
@coleys4 and @dajwilkinson I live in Adelaide Australia and we have this same system of transport. We have been running it for over 25 years and have had only 2 accidents even with there being many night services (every 15 minutes until 1130pm). It has been proven many times that this is one, if not, the safest public transport medium in the world. It also encourages use of public buses as we have over two million passengers a year on busway services.
fredpineapple 9 months ago 2
And this setup is different from a train/tram in what way, exactly? (Don't say tyres - I've seen pneumatic tyres on Paris Metro trains). How long will it last? During construction, a 150-year-old railway bridge needed replacing, according to the publicity at the time. So a railway would last 150 years. I'll give this 15 years before oil crises make the service uneconomic or weather damage writes off the guides.
dajwilkinson 1 year ago
Here's an idea. Reopen the railway and let it be run by enthusiasts as a heritage line...
L13joo 1 year ago 2
Nice grafitti on the fences !!
jeffdarga100 1 year ago
why?... this bloody bus way stole this route from the railways. why?! is this what we sucome to? a bloddy bus on concrete rails? this was a massive waste of money, the railway track was already there and so where the stations, they wasted money by ripping up these rails, it would have been cheeper to re-open the railway line
trainlover657 2 years ago 3
@trainlover657 Two words: "Political". "Decision". (if those don't contradict each other - lol)
dajwilkinson 1 year ago
l see this and think of Homer and the mono rail.
agentgooner007 2 years ago 2
Park Lane in Histon, to Cambridge Regional College, Cambridge, is about two miles. It takes just over 4 mins on the bus down the guideway. A local passenger train service travelling the 2 miles would take just about 3 mins. Which is quicker?
geography27 2 years ago
And it would take about six seconds in a plane. Your point being?
neilstudd 2 years ago
Whats wrong wih a tram system? or a train??
bobman13579 2 years ago 10
@bobman13579 That would be to easy.
14051996 6 months ago
How fast are the buses allowed to go?
iaintgonletup 2 years ago
In Adelaide, the buses go at 100km/h!
ryanthescooterguy 2 years ago
@ryanthescooterguy On a UK railway as straight and level as this a typical permitted speed is 160km/h.
dajwilkinson 1 year ago
Apparently a maximum of 56mph (according to the promo video)
dsample 2 years ago
OK so what happens if a animal dies on the track bed / debris from a falling tree / vandals place something in the path or what happens if a bus gets a puncture, to many problems I see here
coleys4 2 years ago 8
you are right there many problams such as the bus breaking down, In Leigh Wigan Counsil GMPTE & Labour Govamant r talking about these busway that'll take people to Manchester well the busway is only going as far Ellenbrooke the goes on the East Lancs many people are kicking off about it though me being one of them who prefer to have railway broat bak to Leigh or have metrolink tramway
gallafey 2 years ago
buses have much better stopping time than a train
W444444 2 years ago
@coleys4 It's a bad design pure and simple. Suppose a guided bus breaks down at night with an electrical failure. This leaves no lights on the bus and there is no busway lighting. It would be easy for another bus to hit it - there are no signals to protect them - and even if the second bus stops in time, it can't overtake or turn round. Then there's the matter of getting emergency services to the site... If the solution had to be buses, a bus-lane-only road would have made far more sense!
dajwilkinson 1 year ago
@coleys4 those problems happen on railways and tramways as well. Vandals always put things on railway tracks, and as we all know many delays on the railways have been caused by leaves on the line, and fallen trees!
Loughton397 6 months ago
@coleys4 - presumably the same/similar emergency/maintenance response that it would require if it was a train line? I'm guessing they've factored in the buses needing to reverse occasionally!
zeeox 5 months ago
@coleys4 So your telling me that a train never has that problem? In fact a train is a lot more dangerous because it takes miles to stop.... A bus can brake, they travel at 60 mph and brake, if there is a dead animal they run it over.. why would a dead animal affect the bus? If there is a tree in the way it brakes, like on roads, the driver controls the bus with the brakes and accelerator i'm sure
HMSDaring1 5 months ago