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First flight of the Boeing 747 – First commercial widebody airliner. NASA rocket technology, spurred on by the US/Russia Space Race – Makes the first crewed Moon landing a reality. Lolo ball invented. 1971 Salyut 1, first space station, launched by Soviet Union. Runcorn Busway was the world's first bus rapid transit system. [47]
The first mechanically propelled omnibus appeared on the streets of London on 22 April 1833. [9] Steam carriages were much less likely to overturn, they travelled faster than horse-drawn carriages, they were much cheaper to run, and caused much less damage to the road surface due to their wide tyres. [10]
Parisian Omnibus, late nineteenth century A public transport timetable for bus services in England in the 1940s and 1950s. While there are indications of experiments with public transport in Paris as early as 1662, [1] [2] [3] there is evidence of a scheduled "bus route" from Market Street in Manchester to Pendleton in Salford UK, started by John Greenwood in 1824.
The first intercity railway between Liverpool and Manchester was built by Stephenson in 1830. [5] These systems, which made use of the steam locomotive, were the first practical form of mechanized land transport, and they remained the primary form of mechanized land transport for the next 100 years. The first railroad built in Great Britain was ...
MTS Rapid lines including Park Boulevard Busway for Mid-City Rapid and two dedicated center-of-freeway bus stations within I-15 at El Cajon Blvd and University Avenue. San Francisco: Geary BRT and Van Ness BRT: Upgrades existing bus lines with dedicated on-street lanes for portions of the routes. Traffic signal priority is already deployed in ...
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Sydney's tram network ceased to serve the city population by the 1960s, with all tracks being removed, in lieu of a bus service. Melbourne's tram network, however, continues to run to this day. In Dresden, Germany, in 1901 an elevated suspended cable car following the Eugen Langen one-railed floating tram system started operating.
Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, mass transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for passengers by group travel systems available for use by the general public unlike private transport, typically managed on a schedule, operated on established routes, and that may charge a posted fee for each trip.