I should add that on the day I was in Cambridge, after a fairly wet and windy morning all the buses were carrying a degree of ‘weathering’ for which allowance must be made by the viewer.
I have travelled on both the Leigh Guided Busway from Manchester (see blog dated 13/05/2016) as well as the Cambridge Busway and can only conclude that at upward of £200 million pounds for each system it seems an incredibly expensive way of moving people from A to B or even C.
Why the buses need to be guided when they have a driver who is more than capable of doing so and a concrete track when a normal tarmac road would have sufficed I don’t know.
I cannot see any saving over normal operation of a bus route as the driver is still required all the time to drive the unguided bits of the system.
However, politics are not my province so I can only hope that the ratepayers who paid for both systems feel that the have got value for money.
So to the hardware.
YN17 ONA ‘Stagecoach Cambus’ No. 15291 ‘thebusway’. Scania N250UD / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400MMC
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
YN17 ONB ‘Stagecoach Cambus’ No. 15292 ‘thebusway’. Scania N250UD / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400MMC /1
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
YN17 ONB ‘Stagecoach Cambus’ No. 15292 ‘thebusway’. Scania N250UD / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400MMC /2
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
YN17 ONB ‘Stagecoach Cambus’ No. 15292 ‘thebusway’. Scania N250UD / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400MMC /3
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
YN64 ANP ‘Stagecoach Cambus’ No. 15198 ‘thebusway’. Scania N230UD / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
This slightly older bus also put in an appearance on the day.
BF65 WKY ‘Stagecoach Cambus’ No. 21309 ‘thebusway’. Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
BF65 WKZ ‘Stagecoach Cambus’ No. 21310 ‘thebusway’. Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
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