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The amount of pro-BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) propaganda me and Vincent were spoon-fed on our transport course at Uni was enormous. I had a go a few times on the Leeds guided busways and they're nothing in terms of comfort compared to a tram - a 10-year-old busway has the ride quality of a 30-year-old tram track, and the drivers still treated their passengers like sacks of potatoes when accelerating and braking...
Yes, lots of propaganda and few advantages, with significant impact on traffic flows and the local environment. And, of course, other operators' bus services in the same district are forced onto secondary roads and so can't compete freely and fairly (and increase the congestion on these other roads). But Crawley is a 'nuclear free city', so that's all right, then
I know - in Leeds only those that signed the Quality Bus Partnership (Arriva and First) are allowed on the York Road guideway - half the buses that run on it are forced to use the regular carriageway, and so you get two bus stops, each served by around half of the routes. Deregulation sucks.