Luton-Dunstable Busway Is, After in a Congested Conurbation, BRT Can Be Many Years in the Making, Nearly with Us Vital to an Integrated Transport Offer
BRTHandbook_2013_p01_Cover_BRTHandbook_p01 04/09/2013 12:23 Page 1 The Handbook A review of the key developments 2013/14 Published by: Supported by: Sponsored by: BRThandbook_2013_p02-03_Contents_BRThandbook_p02-03 04/09/2013 12:15 Page 2 BRThandbook_2013_p02-03_Contents_BRThandbook_p02-03 04/09/2013 12:15 Page 3 Introduction| 3 Two is company, the proverb says, but, when it comes to bus rapid transit, is three enough to justify using the term ‘crowd’? rogress is being made, there is no And thirdly, the Luton-Dunstable implemented. Which raises the key doubt of that. Cambridge has been busway, so long in development, appears question of ‘why?’ Have the manifest Pup and running for two years now finally to be ready to get under way. So difficulties in getting a BRT scheme and is continuing to produce ridership that’s two major BRT schemes that have approved, funded and, finally, actually built numbers that must gladden the heart of both come to fruition and also really, really been putting people off taking forward every BRT enthusiast in Britain (and, worked. And let’s hope that the Luton- comparable schemes in their own areas? indeed, elsewhere). The Eclipse BRT Dunstable scheme, despite its tortured and And, if they have, will the manifest success scheme in Hampshire, meanwhile, is also lengthy development, also works like a stories of Cambridge and Hampshire lead now both fully operational and, by charm when it opens later this month. them to dust off a few hitherto shelved seemingly achieving its primary aim of The key question is, of course, where BRT schemes? We like to think that they getting people out of their cars and onto does BRT go next, because there don’t will – because if anything these two the bus, doing exactly what its developers seem to be that many other major projects projects show us that, in the final analysis, wrote on the tin.
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