Abandoned Proposals
- Bath, Somerset, the Department of Transport approved funding for a BRT system with 1.4 km of busway, but this has now been abandoned.
- London
- Millennium Transit, a segregated busway intended to link the Millennium Dome with Charlton and Greenwich railway stations, part of which was to include a 1.3 km section of electronic guidance. Intended to be operational when the Dome opened, the electronic guidance technology was abandoned following concerns that neither the system nor the driver was in a position to avoid sudden obstacles. The busway remains in use, unguided.
- Route M1, Charlton - Millennium Dome
- Route M2, Greenwich - Millennium Dome
- Greenwich Waterfront Transit, planned for completion by 2011, abandoned in 2008 due to cancellation of Thames Gateway Bridge.
- Millennium Transit, a segregated busway intended to link the Millennium Dome with Charlton and Greenwich railway stations, part of which was to include a 1.3 km section of electronic guidance. Intended to be operational when the Dome opened, the electronic guidance technology was abandoned following concerns that neither the system nor the driver was in a position to avoid sudden obstacles. The busway remains in use, unguided.
- Stoke-on-Trent Streetcar, primarily to link the railway station to the city centre, but would have also linked the rest of the city's six towns, as well as neighbouring Newcastle-under-Lyme and Kidsgrove. Major destinations included both universities, the hospital and both major football stadia.
Read more about this topic: List Of Guided Busways And BRT Systems In The United Kingdom
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