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High quality bus services can be a match for rail travel

14 September 2012
Incident warnings helped cut traffic levels – and delays
Incident warnings helped cut traffic levels – and delays

 

Your last issue carries several letters claiming that passengers preferred rail travel to buses. This is an assertion often made but never substantiated. I had considered setting out the evidence from five continents on the success of bus rapid transit but then spotted the attached advertisement on the platform at Cambridge station (see illustration).

Great Kneighton is now springing up alongside the southern section of the Cambridgeshire guided busway. Canny developers and their marketers...

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