Your current bus journey.

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Your current bus journey.

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Why not have a bus topic to cap it all off, eh?

Currently on a Scania on the Cambridge Busway.
Looking good so far ;)
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Heading north or south from Cambridge?
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What next? Trams?!
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JamieLei wrote:Heading north or south from Cambridge?
Both - that would be my main reason of going to Cambridge and dad wants to know how a guided busway works....
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So, I'm on First Leeds route 16 on the way to my Dads. 30xxx series I think, and I have the seats with extra Legroom :mrgreen:

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The free shuttle bus I use to travel from the centre of Wollongong to the university.

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A321Pilot wrote:What next? Trams?!
If I move closer to Melbourne? Sure.
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Currently on a lovely old Londoner, Daf DB250 T132AUA, fearing for my life because of low trees...

I'm loving it though, none the Less...
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Sat on a Hulme Hall Coaches Ex-Stagecoach Chesterfield Bus. It's old fleet number was 16494, I know this as It is still inside the bus! Think it is an Olympian. 42mph Top Speed, when I'm used to 62mph on the way to and from school
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Just got off a Denis Plaxton Dart thingy on the No.23 route, my stops being from Fenton to Heron Cross. It's a short hop but it saves the kids legs when they are exhausted from school. I do it twice a day, once in the morning to pick up my youngest and in the afternoon for my eldest. PMT, and I assume the rest of First, just got new ticket machines for the first time in my memory. Goodbye noisy red things, hello swish LCD screened thingys with a bus pass reader in them.
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SquireJames wrote:PMT, and I assume the rest of First, just got new ticket machines for the first time in my memory. Goodbye noisy red things, hello swish LCD screened thingys with a bus pass reader in them.
Arriva in Herts/Bucks have fitted their buses with these. Same with UNO in this area.
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Most of Go Ahead bus companies has rolled it out... and introduced "the Key"...

Nice for a sightseeing tour to Brighton!
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Not current, but earlier today I was on a Wright Gemini Eclipse for First Yorkshire, with a driver who made a cockup of aligning for the entry into the guided roads around Bradford, quite bumpy :roll:
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Huge bump, but I want this Thread to have a revival. Not my current journey, but was my last.

Stagecoach Manchester Route 216 from Manchester Piccadilly to the Etihad Stadium on Sunday the 4th, A Double Deck Enviro I think. Whilst I was in Manchester I saw a new type of Bus I hadn't seen before, which I've managed to find out was the new Enviro 400 MMC Image
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Woo! Stagecoach!
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Nice company Stagecoach - talking about them, I was on this beast last; about an hour ago!

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Currently sat on one of Selwyn's Plaxton Elite's, preparing to depart Leeds Coach Station as the 1645 060 Service to Liverpool. I shall be leaving at Manchester though, I try my best to avoid Liverpool :lol:
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So what's the point of a guided busway, anyway? It looks like it takes up about as much space as a 2 lane road, and apart from the driver being able to take his hands off the wheel (is this really an advantage?), I don't see that it gives any advantage over a regular bus, while adding costs?

If anything it seems slower, as it has an arbitrary speed limit of ~40mph, when the same space looks big enough for a 60mph A or B-road standard road...Would it not have been cheaper just to make a tarmac road and declare the whole thing a bus lane?
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Considering Cambridge's busway has a top speed of 60, I wouldn't have thought so.
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Ah, maybe the articles I've seen weren't about the whole thing - I definitely saw mention of 30mph at the entry, 40mph at some crossovers and other sections etc.

The question remains though, that surely it's more expensive to retrofit and maintain the buses, plus the initial cost of building the roadway (since it has such tight tolerances), rather than just slapping down a regular tarmac road?
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