Article: end of life for busway O-Bahn?

[Set in train]

http://indaily.com.au/news/2013/10/28/is-the-o-bahn-track-nearing-end-of-life/

I have travelled on this when visiting Adelaide for novelty purposes.

It is an amazing piece of infrastructure.

A busway or rail system capable of 100km/h speeds would be more conventional but this is SA which has always done things differently since being settled as a free colony.

[#Metro]

Adelaide always has weird stuff. Surprised that they haven't put up maglev or monorail yet 

[Gazza]

I doubt the ROW costs less to build than the typical two lane roads that busways are built on now.

Basically, the only reason for doing a guided busway is because they can have a narrower ROW compared to a regular roadway...That's why Cambridgeshire built one...So they could safely fit it in an old rail ROW.


Hard to see why Adelaide bothered with it. Has hardly any stops, but at the same time has hardly any entry/exit points, so it fails a bit in terms of doing what busways actually do well.

[ozbob]

Twitter

Adelaide O-Bahn ‏@_obahn 6 hours ago

Whoops!

[pandmaster]

Adelaide always has weird stuff. Surprised that they haven't put up maglev or monorail yet 

Yeah, like the one-way motorway. Not that I think it is a bad idea. It is being made into a regular two-way motorway anyway  .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Expressway_(Australia)

[Otto]

Twitter

Adelaide O-Bahn ‏@_obahn 6 hours ago

Whoops!

For punishment, that driver should be sent to the northern Gold Coast immediately ! 

[SurfRail]

Hey, driving over the Nerang River tram bridge takes SKILL... 

[red dragin]

That photo is from 2012

Which is amazing as I thought Adeliade was about ten years behind the rest of Australia