The NTA’s comments in relation to Cork are a little interesting. They talk of enhanced bus services being delivered before light rail. That enhanced bus service has often been discussed as a BRT system. A lot of planning applications along the rough proposed route often show a “BRT” system for instance, albeit one that looks more like a Bus Connects corridor than a traditional (median running) BRT system.
I think BRTs could be a useful part of systems here. I still think a West Dublin BRT/Swiftway route would be a sensible addition. Seems mad that at one stage we were proposing a metro there and now there won’t even be a Bus Connects corridor. Even in Cork, while I think the east west route will need to be tram, a north south route, or airport route would seem an obvious candidate for such a system.
I also like the idea of an interurban BRT style system, but that’s a bit more out there.
The article mentions a difference in ticketing, but didn’t really explain how this is practically any different to a bus.
The Irish bus system needs more efficient RFID tag on, but a bus is a bus, surely.
Where has the comment gone from the lad with the patreon account? I just got set up.
The lack of ambition is just disgraceful. Israel were deciding what they should build in Tel Aviv. It was suspected to be a couple light rail lines, but they ended up with three metro and light rail lines. Here, were just going to get a tram and some BRT.
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The NTA’s comments in relation to Cork are a little interesting. They talk of enhanced bus services being delivered before light rail. That enhanced bus service has often been discussed as a BRT system. A lot of planning applications along the rough proposed route often show a “BRT” system for instance, albeit one that looks more like a Bus Connects corridor than a traditional (median running) BRT system.
I think BRTs could be a useful part of systems here. I still think a West Dublin BRT/Swiftway route would be a sensible addition. Seems mad that at one stage we were proposing a metro there and now there won’t even be a Bus Connects corridor. Even in Cork, while I think the east west route will need to be tram, a north south route, or airport route would seem an obvious candidate for such a system.
I also like the idea of an interurban BRT style system, but that’s a bit more out there.
The article mentions a difference in ticketing, but didn’t really explain how this is practically any different to a bus.
The Irish bus system needs more efficient RFID tag on, but a bus is a bus, surely.
Where has the comment gone from the lad with the patreon account? I just got set up.
The lack of ambition is just disgraceful. Israel were deciding what they should build in Tel Aviv. It was suspected to be a couple light rail lines, but they ended up with three metro and light rail lines. Here, were just going to get a tram and some BRT.