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From Leigh, the V1 limited-stop bus service joins seven kilometres of guided busway to Ellenbrook, six kilometres of bus lanes on the East Lancashire Road and sections of reserved bus lanes through Salford and Manchester city centres. The V2 service from Atherton to Manchester joins the guided busway at Tyldesley.
1 mile (2.3 km) of guided busway [8] A641 Manchester Road, opened October 2001. Crawley, West Sussex: Crawley Fastway: Metrobus: A 15 miles (24 km) two-route system with segregated lanes and 1 mile (1.5 km) of guided busway. Southgate Avenue opened August 2003 and Fastway opened December 2004. Gateshead, Tyne & Wear: Centrelink Go North East
Jim Stones Coaches was established in 1968 as a charter operator. Upon the bus deregulation in October 1986 the company started bus operations with two routes, 596 from Leigh to Landside and 599 from Leigh to Higher Folds.
On 3 April 2016, First Greater Manchester commenced operating services on the 4.5 miles (7.2 km) North West Guided busway between Leigh and Ellenbrook. A fleet of 25 Wright Gemini 3 bodied Volvo B5LH hybrid buses equipped with guidewheels were operated by First on the service, branded in a dark purple Vantage livery. [30] [31]
1 mile (2 km) of guided busway and a further 0.6 miles (1 km) of unguided bus lanes on Manchester Road to the city centre.----No [1] Bristol: MetroBus: The bus rapid transit network which is a section of guided busway in Ashton Gate and a bus-only exit and bridge on the M32 motorway: 29 May 2018: 5-50 km (31 mi) No [1] Cambridgeshire: Guided Busway
Its 4.5-mile guided busway section from Leigh via Tyldesley to Ellenbrook operates along the old rail alignment. Of Transport for Greater Manchester’s (TfGM) £122m overall spending on the bus route to Manchester Central Hospitals via the city centre, £68m was spent on the guided busway track and associated infrastructure. [13]
The Cambridgeshire Guided Busway between Cambridge and St Ives, at 25 kilometres (16 miles), is the world's longest guided busway. [11] Between 2004 and 2008, a 1-mile (1.5 km) section of guided busway was in operation between Stenhouse and Broomhouse in the west of Edinburgh.The route was later converted for use by Edinburgh trams. [12] [13]
With Ontario's One Fare program, only one fare is required for such routes provided that the rider pays the fare by credit, debit or Presto card and completes the trip within two hours or within three hours if the trip involves the use of GO Transit's services. [4] All routes have wheelchair-accessible low-floor buses.