#cambridge Guided busway claims more drivers who don’t notice signs. This car has lost one, maybe two tyres to the car trap. My question is, how are they rescued? Do ordinary rescue companies have vehicles that can get onto the guideway? Does the county council?
Maybe a dump of wrecked cars along the side of the track would put drivers off from being such idiots? How many warning signs etc did they have to ignore - ‘cant mean me, im intelligent even for Cambridge’ - to get there?
@Ian Patterson Two sets of “no entry - buses only” signs and a “warning car trap” sign, I think. Not quite as vigorously signed as the rising bollards used to be but how much signage do you need?
@Normal for '23 😷🇪🇺🍸 They’re there to stop cars going further on the busway, presumably so that they can be retrieved more easily than half way down a guided section. (This section is an anomaly because it’s not guided except at the entrances; the proper guided sections are narrow trenches.)
Wouldn’t recommend guided bus as a transport solution even if reusing closed railway alignments for transport is a good idea.
Single track sections are controlled by traffic lights.
Paul Oldham 🏴 💛 🇺🇦
in reply to Alexandra Lanes • • •if I remember rightly there is a recovery vehicle, mainly for recovering buses, which has the tech to run up/down the bus way.
(But that was a decade ago now probably so who knows what they have now).
Ian Patterson
in reply to Alexandra Lanes • • •Alexandra Lanes
in reply to Ian Patterson • •Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸
in reply to Alexandra Lanes • • •I like the idea of a "Car Trap". Perhaps we should have more of them elsewhere.
Seriously though, why are they there?
We should have more guided busways and light railways on Beeching's closed railway lines. Hertford to Luton. Buntingford to Broxbourne.
Curious how they cope with single track sections.
Alexandra Lanes
in reply to Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 • •@Normal for '23 😷🇪🇺🍸 They’re there to stop cars going further on the busway, presumably so that they can be retrieved more easily than half way down a guided section. (This section is an anomaly because it’s not guided except at the entrances; the proper guided sections are narrow trenches.)
Wouldn’t recommend guided bus as a transport solution even if reusing closed railway alignments for transport is a good idea.
Single track sections are controlled by traffic lights.