RE: Re: Tram rides: 2 September 2002
Brent Efford
Thursday, September 5, 2002 1:58 AM
That is the O-Bahn system, a guided busway system where the track also
mechanically guides the bus. In Brisbane I understand the busways are simply
roads where other traffic is excluded (as in their underground bus station)
and the buses are manually steered. They would actually be easier to convert
to light rail than the O-Bahn, and bus and LRT could share the right of way,
as in Pittsburgh.
Brent Efford
-----Original Message-----
From: Herman R. Silbiger [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, 5 September 2002 1:37 p.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Tram rides: 2 September 2002
Actually these busways are not paved. They only have paved tracks. I
don't think that it would take anywhere near as much money as starting
from scratch. See the attached picture.
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mechanically guides the bus. In Brisbane I understand the busways are simply
roads where other traffic is excluded (as in their underground bus station)
and the buses are manually steered. They would actually be easier to convert
to light rail than the O-Bahn, and bus and LRT could share the right of way,
as in Pittsburgh.
Brent Efford
-----Original Message-----
From: Herman R. Silbiger [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, 5 September 2002 1:37 p.m.
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Tram rides: 2 September 2002
Actually these busways are not paved. They only have paved tracks. I
don't think that it would take anywhere near as much money as starting
from scratch. See the attached picture.
[email protected] wrote:
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 10:31:07PM -0000, exchange19 wrote:introduced. The only glimmer of hope is that the busways that have
been and are still being constructed are, I understand, readily ableto be converted into light rail paths.
Sounds unlikely considering the cost of building paved busways is
already high enough that you wouldn't want to later spend more on
converting to light rail. If they started with light rail then it
would
have been cheaper than the busway to start with.
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Jeremy Lunn
Melbourne, Australia
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