Much Mention Made By Metrobus Roger French has written a whole blog about Metrobus’ Hydrogen powered vehicles. This Metrobus, by the way, is the bus company (part of the GoAhead empire), that operates in the hinterland between Brighton and London. It is not the First Bus operation in Bristol! Here is Wikipedia expounding Fastway. Fastway aims to improve bus services…
It Seemed A Good Idea At The Time The concept of disgorging M32 traffic right into the centre of Bristol … … along Newfoundland Way, and splurging into the inner ring road (above map, bottom left), might not have been the best traffic management scheme ever. Helpfully, there is a bus lane inwards almost the full length of Newfoundland Way…
Can We Fix It; Yes We Can Sadly, the indefatigable optimism of Bob is often less than apparent when cities decided to “go tram”. Whatever happened to Transport for London’s proposal to run trams from Camden … … to Peckham and Brixton? It died a quick death after being lodged in the “all too difficult” part of the filing cabinet.…
Circling The City Centre Mr Rees, Bristol’s mighty mega-Mayor, Marvin of that ilk, is on a magnificent mission to clean up Bristol. As well as his proposed Underground train network, he is trying to improve air quality, encourage public transport and make car driving easier in the city centre. Some cynics may spot some inconsistencies in these policies as well…
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Temple Meads Troubles Metrobus The decision to turn the perfectly workable Lon Ashton Park and Ride (Bristol) into Metrobus M2 involved huge expense, almost no reduction in journey time and an increase in fares. Needless to say, the decision was not at all popular. Some critics said that The City Council was so desperate for s guided busway that their…
Shock News For London fbb made a right mess of this short item on yesterday’s blog. Some corrections were made, but here is the section again. Transport for London is renumbering a bus route FROM YESTERDAY. The 607, which runs limited stop between White City and Uxbridge … … gets a new identity! On Saturdays, for example,l it runs every ten minutes. What…
Slam In A Tram! Back in the day, workmen took over the road and laid the tracks. They did not have modern traffic., health and safety or vociferous opposition to frighten the politicians. Above is Leicester and below is Nottingham. And any way, trams just ran along the road with ordinary traffic – seemples. Once built, everything ran happily together…
The twentieth Scottish Transport Awards took place on June 22 in Glasgow and you can read all about the winners in this official Souvenir Brochure. Click on the image below to view Scottish Transport Awards Book of Winners 2023. If you are viewing the site on a tablet or mobile device, tap here to view. The post Scottish Transport…
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