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 ?
Reo
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 ?
Reo
tonyp wrote:You don't necessarily have to throw expensive technology at this problem to solve it.
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.
PoweredByCNG wrote:Busway. Good luck trying to find suitable buses for a technology no longer supported by its original manufacturer.
tonyp wrote:Hasn't AdMet been able to source everything itself and use other buses without any need to call on MB?
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?
The SL200s certainly weren't capable of reaching this speed IIRC.
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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