What are everyone's thoughts on the better/most cost effective/safer method of having a dedicated road for buses only,namely the Adelaide O-Bahn system or the Busway network as preferred in Brisbane ?
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O-Bahn has more technology cost and for what benefit? Presumably just being able to obtain a higher running speed on a narrower land footprint. There are circumstances where the extra cost might be worth this (e.g. Adelaide presumably), but otherwise a normal busway would suffice. Just getting priority for buses is enough of an achievement on its own. This can even be as simple as a painted exclusive bus lane on a road and full traffic light priority. You don't necessarily have to throw expensive technology at this problem to solve it.Reo wrote:What are everyone's thoughts on the better/most cost effective/safer method of having a dedicated road for buses only,namely the Adelaide O-Bahn system or the Busway network as preferred in Brisbane ?
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However, if you're a pollie.....tonyp wrote:You don't necessarily have to throw expensive technology at this problem to solve it.
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I guess the biggest problem with painted bus lanes is that everybody tends to abuse them . In Brisbane drivers have also been caught using the various Busways as a short cut.
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That has to be dealt with by policing and cameras.Reo wrote:I guess the biggest problem with painted bus lanes is that everybody tends to abuse them . In Brisbane drivers have also been caught using the various Busways as a short cut.
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Busway. Good luck trying to find suitable buses for a technology no longer supported by its original manufacturer.
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Hasn't AdMet been able to source everything itself and use other buses without any need to call on MB?PoweredByCNG wrote:Busway. Good luck trying to find suitable buses for a technology no longer supported by its original manufacturer.
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From what I heard, it was an MAN designed system, not Mercedes-Benz. I wonder what buses would have been used if MAN did accept an order for 92 new buses designed for high speed running?tonyp wrote: Hasn't AdMet been able to source everything itself and use other buses without any need to call on MB?
The SL200s certainly weren't capable of reaching this speed IIRC.
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Engineered by Daimler-Benz and Zublin.TA3001 wrote:From what I heard, it was an MAN designed system, not Mercedes-Benz. I wonder what buses would have been used if MAN did accept an order for 92 new buses designed for high speed running?
Technologies were available to MAN in the 1980s to cater for such an operation.The SL200s certainly weren't capable of reaching this speed IIRC.
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Very rarely. I don't think I've ever seen it happen.Reo wrote:I guess the biggest problem with painted bus lanes is that everybody tends to abuse them . In Brisbane drivers have also been caught using the various Busways as a short cut.
People do drive in bus lanes but enforcement such as cameras is possible too.