Reading’s bus service impresses -so is it BRT?

A trip to Reading led Dr Bob Tebb to once again ponder the question of how to define Bus Rapid Transit in the UK

Recently I was delighted to be invited by the Thames Valley Branch of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport to read a paper to them on the concept of Bus Rapid Transit.

This brought me back to the very start of my professional transport career, where I started at the then-governmental Transport & Road Research Laboratory based near Reading in the early 1970s. Even then, the town had quite a reputation for the quality of its municipal bus network, as well as efforts to adopt...

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