Future - UK - Buses in the fast lane
A glimmer of hope for frustrated commuters
Leeds,Yorkshire,UK -Yorkshire Post Today, by William Green-4 Nov 2005: -- With its sleek lines and futuristic name, the bus that looks a bit like a tram may now be the only way forward for fed-up Yorkshire commuters, after the Government yesterday finally killed off the Leeds Supertram... The so-called "ftr" vehicle is set to begin running in York's streets early next year and may now come to Leeds after Transport Secretary Alistair Darling signalled such a system was preferable to a tram system... The cost of the vehicle is about a fifth of the price of a tram – about £1.7m. The price of laying track for light rail is just under £14m per kilometre (0.6miles), while the cost of installing a priority lane for a guided bus is about £160,000 per kilometre... Mr Darling yesterday said rapid bus transit systems could carry a large number of people quickly, like trams, but deliver results at 50 per cent of the cost... But experts are unsure about the benefits of choosing a bus-based system over a light rail scheme... The executive director of environmental pressure group Transport 2000, Stephen Joseph, said: "Buses can do a lot but beyond a certain level, only light rail can give you the quality and capacity in transport that you need to keep cities moving"...
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