The Anonymous Widower

The Invisible Busway

I used to see the odd local news story about the Luton Dunstable Busway, when I lived in Suffolk, but it does seem to be rather invisible on the web. It does have a rather poor website, which doesn’t seem to be updated regularly, but information in Wikipedia is very limited. It’s just a section in Transport in Luton, under Current Developments. It does say that it opened in September 2013.

The only news story I can find is this one about low usage on the BBC.

Passenger numbers for the first month of the Luton and Dunstable guided busway were just 43% of those predicted for the £91m scheme.

Perhaps the busway hasn’t been given a high enough profile? The successful Cambridge busway, had a lot of publicity, although much of it proved the old adage, that no publicity is bad publicity.

Perhaps I should go for a look, but there is very little to draw me to Luton or Dunstable.

February 2, 2014 - Posted by | Transport/Travel, World | ,

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