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In Brisbane, Australia, we’re buying funny-looking buses with wheel covers and calling it a “metro”.

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There are lots of reasons trains would be better, but they come down to capacity and if you are building something dedicated tracks are similar price for more capacity. Brisbane has proven that done well the bus works very well and you don’t need trains until you need high capacity.

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“Metro” literally can’t run on regular roads. The specialised buses are too big to fit in normal lanes. It can only run on dedicated BRT routes. i.e., dedicated tracks.

But more so I’m just angry at the misleading marketing. It’s an ok project with the wrong name. And other more substantial problems like already decreasing the promised frequency, giving up on level boarding and off-vehicle tap-ons. But it was the name that I was trying to highlight in my earlier comment.

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You fail to realize how badithe rest of us have it. I wish for your problems. Not that you are wrong and shouldn’t be mad, but you still have it good.

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at least gothenburg is going to call their chonky buses “metrobus”, not just “metro”

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The specialised buses are too big to fit in normal lanes.

Seriously? We are using the same model in European cities, even small ones, without issues in mixed traffic.

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