If your idea of what constitutes bus rapid transit (BRT) has been shaped by grand projects like the Cambridgeshire or Luton-Dunstable guided busways or even the non-guided but segregated Eclipse line in south Hampshire, prepare to have that challenged in South Yorkshire. In what could be a textbook example of the flexibility of the BRT concept, South Yorkshire PTE, Sheffield and Rotherham councils are poised to deliver a line without a single piece of segregated track and the minimum of bus lanes. They also are still trying to secure funding and approval for a second similar link.
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