http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ly82_KiyrC4
With this, buses don't need expressways anymore...
This idea was nothing new as the first system was up in Australia
in the 1980s.
SBS did propose such a guided bus system in Singapore in the
late 1990s, but LTA was really stupid enough to reject this good
proposal at that time.
Such guided bus system is not only flexible here, as it allow
buses to move on such systems as well as on the roads, but
also more cost effective than LRT system and more importantly bus
lane problems and other related problems will be minimised to the
lowest levels as buses will have their own lanes, thus other
vehicles cannot interfer this lane specially for buses. On the
other hand, it eliminates the need for extra lane to be given to
buses only on the roads as it is unfair for other motorists
who shares the road and pay the road taxes and other related road
charges and yet have to compete with public buses with road space.
If only SBS's proposal was implemented then, bus speeds will be up
significantly and no obstructions for buses leaving the bus stops,
since such guided busways allows buses to travel up to 100km/h.
As mentioned before, road shoulders at expressway for buses are
not feasible as it is catered for other purposes like emergency
vehicles, breakdown vehicles, vehicles involved in small accidents,
etc. Bus lanes on expressways doesn't help to solve much of the
problem as well.
