£200k for Aberdeen from the Bus Partnership Fund

[GusB]

This cropped up earlier in the week:

£200,000 for Aberdeen bus infrastructure - Bus & Coach Buyer

The Scottish Government has awarded £200,000 to the North East Bus Alliance through the Bus Partnership Fund. This will deliver bus priority infrastructure on Market Street, Guild Street and Bridge Street in Aberdeen city centre – reducing the impact of congestion on bus services and making...

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The Scottish Government has awarded £200,000 to the North East Bus Alliance through the Bus Partnership Fund.

This will deliver bus priority infrastructure on Market Street, Guild Street and Bridge Street in Aberdeen city centre – reducing the impact of congestion on bus services and making journeys quicker for passengers.

Bus lanes and gates are expected to be operational by the end of Summer 2023, coinciding with the completion of improvements at South College Street which are funded by the Scottish Government and Aberdeen City Council. This is all part of the City Council’s wider City Centre Masterplan and is intended to benefit many bus passengers.

The North East Bus Alliance is made up of Local Authorities, Bus Operators, Nestrans and other key stakeholders. As part of the award, the expectation is that partners provide match investment and/or action to improve the entire bus offer.

The Bus Partnership Fund is also supporting the development of a proposed Aberdeen Rapid Transit system for the region including bus priority on associated transport corridors into the city.

It's getting on for 20 years since I lived in Aberdeen, so I'm interested to hear the views of those who currently live there. The article mentions priority measures on Market Street, Guild Street and Bridge Street but there's not a hell of a lot of room on any of those roads, unless they're looking at completely removing cars and other traffic.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for getting rid of cars etc. from the city centre, but I'm not convinced this is going to work.

 

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This cropped up earlier in the week:

£200,000 for Aberdeen bus infrastructure - Bus & Coach Buyer

The Scottish Government has awarded £200,000 to the North East Bus Alliance through the Bus Partnership Fund. This will deliver bus priority infrastructure on Market Street, Guild Street and Bridge Street in Aberdeen city centre – reducing the impact of congestion on bus services and making...

www.busandcoachbuyer.com

It's getting on for 20 years since I lived in Aberdeen, so I'm interested to hear the views of those who currently live there. The article mentions priority measures on Market Street, Guild Street and Bridge Street but there's not a hell of a lot of room on any of those roads, unless they're looking at completely removing cars and other traffic.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for getting rid of cars etc. from the city centre, but I'm not convinced this is going to work.

The private motorist is never going to be convinced.

Having driven buses up this way for a short while now I can understand where the issues lay.

Guild St East-Bound is a killer for buses running late, the 3, 12 and 13 are all subject to this issue and it’s not just First Aberdeen but also Stagecoach/Citylink/Megabus trying to exist the bus station as well that can be an issue.

 

[bluenoxid]

I don’t know Aberdeen but it appears that the plan is to stop/restrict several manoeuvres at junctions. I am under the impression that in some cases, the road will be open to general traffic but that general traffic will be required to turn off at some point whilst buses will progress through. That latter model has been used in Toronto very effectively.

 

[lachlan]

It’s good to see moves to install bus priority though the good work will be undone by the additional capacity for cars being created on College Street and if the Berryden corridor project gets built.

 

[Volvodart]

There were supposed to be partial bus lanes coming to Market Street several years ago which never happened.