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This is a list of the past, present, planned or abandoned guided bus systems or bus rapid transit schemes in the United Kingdom, including segregated busways.Not included are bus priority schemes, bus lanes or local authority bus company quality contracts that do not involve guidance, significant segregation from the public highway or other bus rapid transit features.
The UK's first contra-flow bus lane was instigated along Kings Road, when that road was made one-way in the early 1960s. The trolleybuses continued to operate two-way, as it was considered uneconomic to erect wiring on the new inbound route, London Road.
London Buses route 120 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England. Running between Northolt station and Hounslow bus station, it is operated by Metroline. In 1994, it became the first bus route in the United Kingdom to solely use low floor, accessible buses. [1] [2]
An RAC poll suggested 36% of drivers have accidentally driven in a bus lane. ... Councils urged not to issue bus lane fines for first time offences ... – The survey of 1,763 UK drivers was ...
Later that year, Chicago implemented a bus lane in the center of Washington Street, a five lane one-way street downtown. [3] [4] The first bus lanes in Europe were established in 1963 in the German city of Hamburg, when the tram system was closed and the former dedicated tram tracks were converted for bus travel. Other large German cities soon ...
Fastway is a bus rapid transit network in Surrey and West Sussex, United Kingdom, linking Crawley with Gatwick Airport and Horley, the first to be constructed outside a major city. It uses specially adapted buses that can either be steered by the driver or operate as "self steering" guided buses along a specially constructed track.
Thousands of bus lane fines and an illegal rave. December 28, 2024 at 11:03 PM ... Val, 78, from Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset, first started her collection when her daughter Nicola was born in 1969.
London's first bus service ran between Threadneedle Street and Paddington from 1829. Today, the street is served by bus routes 8, 11, 23, 26, 133, 242, and 388. Over 5,000 tonnes of gold bars are held by the Bank of England, both official reserves of the UK Treasury, and others, in a system of eight vaults, over two floors, under Threadneedle ...