Hgv Strays On To Busway

[mushroom25]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22043728

the infrastructure concerned cost millions but carries no more than 10 buses each way per hour. HGVs have the same track-width as most buses, and it would be relatively simple to equip them with the necessary guideway equipment.

Rather than threatening transgressors with huge fines, wouldn't it be better to offer HGV operators the opportunity to take advantage of this underused infrastructure and offer relief for users of the parallel A14?

[DangerUXD]

can't see why not on the face of it. There may be times and places where the trucks would clogg up the bus lane I suppose.

[Gromit]

Not sure all lorries have a standard width and it is the same as the buses or that lorry companies would be prepared to buy the relevent kit which probably costs hundreds of thousands of pounds.

And I think you are missing the point. Buses get preferential treatment to speed up their journey time to make it an attractive option. The aim is to cut congestion. If you clogg it up with lorries, there is very little point doing it in the first place.

The HGV driver must not have been driving with due care and attention. And must have stupid yo take his lorry along the trackway. The infrastructure would have been expensive, so a high fine as a deterent is necessary.

[Gromit]

It cost £181 million so they don't really want lorries driving on it and breaking it.

Not sure lorries would like it if they were behind a bus on the single track that stopped every 2 minutes.

This lorry came fro Yorkshire. Do you want every lorry in the country to be retrofitted with the technolgy? How much would that cost? How much would that put up prices in the shops?

[mushroom25]

there are 6 stops on the busway, which take the buses 20mn to travel end-to-end. thus they don't stop every 2mn.

i don't recall saying anything about the entire uk hgv fleet being retro-fitted - i said "wouldn't it be better to offer HGV operators the opportunity..." which isn't the same thing at all.

[Gromit]

As I say, the whole point was to get the buses off of the congested roads and improve journey times and reliability. Hopefully attracting more people to use public transport instead of cars.

If you then reintroduce traffic onto the Busway, you defeat the whole object.