In message , Boltar
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Guided busways have hardly ever been a success wherever they've been
tried. They're a solution designed by a commitee. "We want something
that follows a set route but we like busses , I know , lets have a
guided bus!". Duh. If you want a guided vehicle have a railway , rail
vehicles are more efficient in energy use , can carry FAR more people
than any bus and are more reliable. If you want a bus put it on a road
, you don't need to build a special road with side barriers (which is
all a busway is) for it. I wonder how long after this road .. sorry
"busway" is built, it would take for some politician eager to coin in
the motorist vote to say "Hey , why don't we let cars use this road too?"

But aren't guided bus ways a lot cheaper to build and more reliable? And
guided bus ways can become normal buses when they get to the end of the
busway?
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CJG

CJG writes
But aren't guided bus ways a lot cheaper to build and more reliable?

Of course, that's why there are guided busways in every town and city
across the nation.

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Dave

CJG wrote in message ...
But aren't guided bus ways a lot cheaper to build and more reliable? And
guided bus ways can become normal buses when they get to the end of the
busway?

Depends what you mean by reliable. Sure if you have a pothole in the busway
it probably won't bring the whole service to a halt like a broken rail would
but on the other hand roads seem to disintegrate far quicker than rail so
more maintenance would ultimately be needed and given that by design a bus
can't run around the roadworks on a busway since its held in place by the
guiderails, any maintenance will force closure of the busway just as on a
railway. Busways are pointless. If you want a road just build a road , not
some poor facsimile of a railway.

B2003