{"id":627,"date":"2022-05-29T14:18:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T13:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=627"},"modified":"2022-06-30T15:31:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T14:31:12","slug":"a-poor-mans-light-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2022\/05\/29\/a-poor-mans-light-rail\/","title":{"rendered":"A poor man&#8217;s Light rail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was in Cambridge last Saturday, for the express purpose of taking a ride on the town&#8217;s guided busway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Always a believer in the concept of don&#8217;t knock it until you&#8217;ve tried it, I went there to see the guided busway (one of two in England) and was greatly underwhelmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"690\" src=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Oakington-Busway-Station-1024x690.jpg\" alt=\"Oakington busway station, Cambridge, England. Copyright Ewan Duffy 2022\" class=\"wp-image-629\" srcset=\"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Oakington-Busway-Station-1024x690.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Oakington-Busway-Station-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Oakington-Busway-Station-768x517.jpg 768w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Oakington-Busway-Station-1536x1035.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Oakington-Busway-Station-2048x1379.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Oakington-Busway-Station-1200x808.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Oakington-Busway-Station-1980x1334.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Oakington busway station, Cambridge, England. Copyright Ewan Duffy 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst seeing the bus driver drive handsfree on the guided busway section (majority of the guided sections north and south of Cambridge are on former railway alignments) was interesting, I haven&#8217;t changed my view of guided busways. They are a poor man&#8217;s LRT and a full light rail system would be better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Cambridge last Saturday, for the express purpose of taking a ride on the town&#8217;s guided busway. Always a believer in the concept of don&#8217;t knock it until you&#8217;ve tried it, I went there to see the guided busway (one of two in England) and was greatly underwhelmed. Whilst seeing the bus driver [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}