In the video is the phrase, "It's a solution that relies on all levels of government working together for it to be truly effective."tonyp wrote:If the state bus agency posted a propaganda piece like this on Youtube in Sydney there'd be heads rolling for challenging the prevailing state orthodoxy (move vehicles not people)!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0DOQGrIVwY
Truer words have not been spoken. Anyone who frequently uses the network here will quickly come to appreciate how often buses are held up by the very measures meant to speed them up; say the "B Lights" on the Causeway and at most major bus interchanges.
(In my opinion) Bus movements should not be restricted to any singular point in the traffic light cycle, if a bus is present at the lights, "priority" means they should be allowed to move prior to the next wave of traffic. Instead of having for a short window for buses every few minutes, they'd get several cycles across the span of a few minutes. The added benefits being less "waves" of arrivals at the interchanges as buses get their light cycle, and major corridors to & from the interchanges will have services staggered better.