Essen Guided busway

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Комментарии • 72

  • @jemjon
    @jemjon 4 года назад +4

    OMG I live in Essen 😂
    1:14 that is literally 5 mins from Where i live... WHY did i not know you were here...

  • @Internationalcartoons4063
    @Internationalcartoons4063 4 года назад +2

    Everytime there's a guided bus way, I always thought the bus is a tram.

  • @InterRegios
    @InterRegios 4 года назад +4

    Should become cheaper by turning it into a tram, or at least, hybrid or electric trolleybuses? The dedicated "way" is already built, which is the most expensive part of a tram system, but would be better in terms of power cost.
    Some cities in South America built transit systems like this instead of trams or metros, arguing there were cheaper, and now they suffer serious overcrowding, and pollution problems. It's simply too small for medium and big sized cities. Even if you use articulated buses.
    Apologies for my English btw!

    • @cookiecats-eu
      @cookiecats-eu 4 года назад

      nope it isnt cheaper... there are only a few stops that are guided... right between the "highway" A40 in germany... not sure, but that are only 6 or 7 stops. the rest is manual driving

  • @crazyleyland5106
    @crazyleyland5106 4 года назад +3

    I bet the Germans had guided buses up and running before we did. In the early 80s when the Tracbus project was launched, it was poo- pooed. One of the Metrobuses, with its guide wheels, is preserved.

  • @charleysmith7565
    @charleysmith7565 4 года назад +1

    The only guided bus way that I know of is the Vantage services between Ellenbrook and near Tyldesley in Greater Manchester but to see Citaros on a guided bus way is even better I think 😂😂

  • @BuddyClubP1
    @BuddyClubP1 4 года назад +1

    You should infiltrate the Bullring Shopping Centre because you can access these big pathways all the way at the top of the shopping centre.

  • @Mrcrappyfuntastic
    @Mrcrappyfuntastic 4 года назад +6

    I never seen this until today. This is pretty cool actually.

    • @Andrewjg_89
      @Andrewjg_89 4 года назад +1

      Same 😂

    • @fin57
      @fin57 4 года назад +2

      They are all over the uk two just roads which use buses with wheels on the side that touch the curb stone at the side to guide it along

    • @MaxsTrainspotting
      @MaxsTrainspotting 4 года назад +2

      Theres one at Cambridge

    • @leonardvancottjr.2102
      @leonardvancottjr.2102 4 года назад +1

      Agreeing with your comment!!!

  • @imaginox9
    @imaginox9 4 года назад +4

    That's where these type of busway was invented in the 80's

  • @Jojtek22
    @Jojtek22 4 года назад +5

    So this here could be called a BRT (Bus Rapid Transit). Seeing that they often cost 1/3 of an equivalent tram system, while offering better flexibility and similar passenger throughput they might be more and more popular in the future.

    • @godfreypoon5148
      @godfreypoon5148 4 года назад +1

      Public transport go brrrrrrrt

    • @bastianmann4936
      @bastianmann4936 4 года назад +1

      No because a bus needs more energy than a tram. That's the reason why railways exist.

    • @madrockxvx
      @madrockxvx Год назад

      Not quite, you can have a BRT without it being guided

  • @vrryan6
    @vrryan6 4 года назад +2

    Interesting Busway Ben

  • @ALANSWEETIES99
    @ALANSWEETIES99 4 года назад +2

    Where this place, mate?

    • @cookiecats-eu
      @cookiecats-eu 4 года назад +1

      its essen in germany (ruhr-area)
      i think beno is standing on the station "Frillendorfer Platz"
      goo.gl/maps/3EQeWoZwN65Q3nXP7

  • @gigteevee6118
    @gigteevee6118 4 года назад +5

    Pacers without the tracks! Are they automated or is a driver having to concentrate to keep it in the gully's?

    • @lilyhopkins5044
      @lilyhopkins5044 4 года назад +6

      If you look at the front of the bus, small wheels at kerb level are visible next to the main wheels, these push on the steering to keep the bus on the route without any need for driver input.

    • @fin57
      @fin57 4 года назад +3

      @@lilyhopkins5044 need some input occasionally but does majority the work

    • @cookiecats-eu
      @cookiecats-eu 4 года назад +1

      the busses have guidewheels on a few positions... the driver hast only to brake and "give gas"

  • @DanielMeakin1
    @DanielMeakin1 4 года назад +2

    Very interesting

  • @Andrewjg_89
    @Andrewjg_89 4 года назад +1

    Take note on what you haven’t achieved Cambridgeshire. Essen is lot better with their guided busways and they know how to run it properly. Do like how there are bus stops by side of the motorway or expressway amazes me. Was this used to be a former railway line or was suppose to be a tram line. But instead it’s being used as a guided busway in the middle. Incredible.

    • @benolifts
      @benolifts  4 года назад +3

      I found this busway too slow. The buses go slower than the cars which is just embarrassing. Cambridge busway runs much faster than this.

    • @Andrewjg_89
      @Andrewjg_89 4 года назад

      @@benolifts Really?!

    • @trombonetortoise3406
      @trombonetortoise3406 4 года назад +1

      ...maybe the cars just go faster in Germany...

    • @Andrewjg_89
      @Andrewjg_89 4 года назад

      @@trombonetortoise3406 Yeah they do

  • @regraix5275
    @regraix5275 4 года назад +5

    These buses even went underground (like a subway) in Essen, this route is what's remaining of this system.
    obus269.homepage.t-online.de/image225v95.jpg

    • @benolifts
      @benolifts  4 года назад +1

      It is a shame that the best part of the route has been removed

    • @illegalprime3626
      @illegalprime3626 4 года назад +3

      @@benolifts Underground Trolleybuses still exist in Boston if you ever make it there, I rode on them when i was vwery little and still remember how shocked I was that a BUS WAS GOING IN A TUNNEL with underground stations even!

    • @OneKnifeYeHand
      @OneKnifeYeHand 4 года назад +1

      Exactly! And same in Seattle, where they even share the tunnel tracks with the light rail tracks.

  • @Psevdonim123
    @Psevdonim123 4 года назад +1

    It used to be guided trolleybusway

  • @SW20boy
    @SW20boy 4 года назад +2

    Never seen anything like this before

  • @maturanaccessvlog4424
    @maturanaccessvlog4424 8 месяцев назад

    Bruh bus train thats one way to prevent bus car collisions

  • @johnrauner2515
    @johnrauner2515 4 года назад +1

    How do the points work so the buses can change tracks?

    • @lilyhopkins5044
      @lilyhopkins5044 4 года назад +2

      As far as I'm aware, most places just depend on the driver taking over if route changes are needed.

    • @fin57
      @fin57 4 года назад +2

      They just come out onto the road mostly

  • @Therobster87
    @Therobster87 4 года назад +2

    Do you work in germany?

  • @naturallyherb
    @naturallyherb 4 года назад +2

    Wow!

  • @rsx-797drivelineinstitute8
    @rsx-797drivelineinstitute8 4 года назад +1

    Beno, ano ang mga guided busway na pumalo sa mahigit dalawandaang kilometro kada oras?

    • @Andrewjg_89
      @Andrewjg_89 4 года назад +1

      No one understands what you said.

    • @BsBsBock
      @BsBsBock 4 года назад +1

      @@Andrewjg_89 😂😂😂

    • @cookiecats-eu
      @cookiecats-eu 4 года назад

      no they arent... the max speed is about 80 km/h

    • @rsx-797drivelineinstitute8
      @rsx-797drivelineinstitute8 4 года назад

      @@cookiecats-eu Eh, walumpung kilometro kada oras?!

    • @cookiecats-eu
      @cookiecats-eu 4 года назад

      @@rsx-797drivelineinstitute8 erm sry what do you mean?

  • @303shaunl
    @303shaunl 4 года назад +4

    The drivers skill must be great. Those gullies would worry me

  • @jonaskuczaty3389
    @jonaskuczaty3389 4 года назад +1

    When did you film this?

  • @kapamilyaandkapusogroup3148
    @kapamilyaandkapusogroup3148 4 года назад +2

    Bagyong Ulysses (Vamco)

  • @ryangordon3011
    @ryangordon3011 4 года назад +2

    So you managed to fly to Germany then

    • @benolifts
      @benolifts  4 года назад +1

      not recently

    • @trombonetortoise3406
      @trombonetortoise3406 4 года назад +1

      was expecting the next video to be: ‚...and this is how I actually got to Germany...‘ :)

    • @OneKnifeYeHand
      @OneKnifeYeHand 4 года назад +1

      Me too, although for a moment I wondered if he meant Essen (Germany) or Essen (Belgium). But it became clear very quickly that meant the former, so yeah.

  • @windowsxpnt2347
    @windowsxpnt2347 4 года назад

    Hey Austin this is guys

    • @Andrewjg_89
      @Andrewjg_89 4 года назад

      windows xpnt is a boring bot

    • @Radioaktivitaet
      @Radioaktivitaet 4 года назад +1

      @@Andrewjg_89 no he is an operating system

    • @Andrewjg_89
      @Andrewjg_89 4 года назад

      @@Radioaktivitaet No shit

  • @Mrcrappyfuntastic
    @Mrcrappyfuntastic 4 года назад +1

    first lol