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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

Dr. Bob Tebb
15 November 2010
Dr Bob Tebb is chair of BRTuk. He is also operations technical manager for First UK Bus. The views in this article are his own.
Dr Bob Tebb is chair of BRTuk. He is also operations technical manager for First UK Bus. The views in this article are his own.
Treasury changes to Ethanol taxation have seen Reading Buses drop its bio-ethanol-powered buses
Treasury changes to Ethanol taxation have seen Reading Buses drop its bio-ethanol-powered buses

 

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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