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Tracline 65 was a bus route in Birmingham, England which included the first guided busway in the United Kingdom. The existing route 65 bus route was upgraded as part of an experiment to improve bus services, by the West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive .
Clyde Fastlink is a high frequency bus rapid transit system in Glasgow, Scotland.The system was designed to provide greater connectivity and faster journey times between Glasgow City Centre and the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Govan, as well as to several other key developments along the north and south banks of the Clyde Waterfront.
Glasgow, Clyde Fastlink, along the north bank of the River Clyde, with segregated running for the majority of its length outside the city centre. [24] It has been approved by Scottish ministers and is expected to be ready for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. [25] Glasgow City Centre - Glasgow Harbour with the majority of the route segregated. [26 ...
Busways also inherited several Bristol LH single-deckers from the PTE, many of which were scrapped or converted to driver trainers. Some examples survived into 1994, used in the main fleet, Blue Bus Services and Favourite Services, and the type was added to in this time with many second hand examples.
One of the world's longest, fastest and most heavily used guided busways. 9 March 1986 - 3 12 km (7.5 mi) Not BRT certified in 2022. [2] Brisbane: South-East Busway: Routes are linked through an underground hub in the central business district. Busways in Brisbane carried over 70 million passengers in 2011. 13 September 2000 - 13 13.2 km (8.2 mi)
Scottish Citylink operates an extensive network of long-distance express services within Scotland, operating 19 routes linking the cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Stirling and Inverness, as well as linking some rural Highland communities to the main urban areas of Scotland. [2]
In March 2008, Go West Midlands was sold to Rotala, who also owned Central Connect and North Birmingham Busways. [4] [5] Rotala originally kept the Diamond business separate from Central Connect and Ludlows (purchased later [6]), instead switching a number of routes between the three operators. From November 2011, Central Connect was re-branded ...
The orange and black colour scheme of the Strathclyde PTE is illustrated on a Class 311 unit seen at Glasgow Central station in May 1984. The principal predecessor to SPT was the Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Executive (GGPTE) set up in 1972 to take over the Glasgow Corporation's public transport functions and to co-ordinate public transport in the Clyde Valley.