London's Millennium Transit Guidance System On the Rocks
IVsource.net
30 September 2000

The infrastructure is ready to go -- guidance-ready facilities are in place -- but the development contract needs at least another year.

The Millennium Transit service is planned to serve visitors to the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, England.  Designs call for the express bus service to run on a very narrow lane, using electronic guidance for lateral control.

Given the need to get some kind of bus service operating along the Busway, London Buses therefore had no option but to terminate the guidance contract.

The key stakeholders -- London Buses, English Partnerships, and the London Borough of Greenwich -- are now working up plans to enable passenger buses to use the Busway in conventional driver mode.  This will require infrastructure modifications: the bus stops with platforms that were designed for use by buses under guidance now have have insufficient clearance for safe use by conventionally driven buses.  London Transport sees a high risk of the vehicle body colliding with the platform edge without the changes.  Other options are reportedly also under consideration, but details have not been released.

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... see the IVsource archives for a full report on plans for the Millennium system.

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