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I live in Adelaide, shout out if you have any practical questions you’d like answered. The buses look like normal every day buses but if you look closely you c
by evolve2k 8y ago
I live in Adelaide, shout out if you have any practical questions you’d like answered.
The buses look like normal every day buses but if you look closely you can see the little wheels that protrude out the sides to keep the special buses on the bus way. The bus otherwise drives around like a normal bus until it drives onto the cement track and the little side wheels are then used just to keep the bus from scraping the sides and just rolling along easily.
- rocky1138 8y agoIs it useful? Is it cost-effective? Are people happy with it? Are there plans to introduce it elsewhere because it's so successful? Could you come to Canada please and convince our government to do it?
- ndnxhs 8y agoIt is useful. I don't take it often because it doesn't go my way but I used it once to get to a friends house and it was pretty amazing. Really fast and unobstructed by traffic.
- ramshorns 8y agoHow is it better than a regular dedicated bus roadway without rails?
- tobtoh 8y agoSince the guide wheels steer the bus, the driver only has to apply accelerator/brake and there is no chance of the bus deviating off the track at high speed. So it can travel at a faster speed more safely. The track is also more compact than an equivalent two-lane dedicated bus roadway - especially given the safety margins roadways need when you have high-speed vehicles travelling on them. Being more compact meant the O-Bahn route could follow the Torrens creek which gave it an unobstructed route from the outer suburbs right to the CBD without expensive land purchases etc.