I was looking at videos on YouTube and I came across this video from TransLink Northern Ireland for a new type of bus they call it glider bus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeKIVCgNhOQ
And here it is in service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeKIVCgNhOQ
Will the glider bus ever come to Australia
Glider bus will it ever come to Australia
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Re: Glider bus will it ever come to Australia
So, what would the Glider's advantages be over a standard full low floor artic??
Re: Glider bus will it ever come to Australia
It's just this Van Hool articulated (or bi-articulated) bus:
https://www.vanhool.be/en/public-transp ... sel-hybrid
For operations that want to pretend they're running a tram by having buses that look like trams, just the usual old "BRT fantasy". Some usable internal space is lost to an unnecessary full-width driver's cab. I can see this turning up in Brisbane as the mysterious "metro" vehicle that the Lord Mayor can't find words to describe and doesn't want to choke on the words "articulated bus".
I can't figure out why it's moving so slowly in this video.
https://www.vanhool.be/en/public-transp ... sel-hybrid
For operations that want to pretend they're running a tram by having buses that look like trams, just the usual old "BRT fantasy". Some usable internal space is lost to an unnecessary full-width driver's cab. I can see this turning up in Brisbane as the mysterious "metro" vehicle that the Lord Mayor can't find words to describe and doesn't want to choke on the words "articulated bus".
I can't figure out why it's moving so slowly in this video.
Re: Glider bus will it ever come to Australia
Yes its an artic bus/ pretend tram. Lots of em in both Europe and America and yes its the sort of thing that Brisbane will end up with in bi artic version.
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Re: Glider bus will it ever come to Australia
I think you meant 'refuses' - in case the punters wake up to the con job.tonyp wrote: the mysterious "metro" vehicle that the Lord Mayor can't find words to describe.
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