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2. Buses can easily rival trams at shifting passengers - just 2 of
these 180 passenger Van Hool double-artic buses carry more than a
Croydon tram:
http://www.vanhool.com/products_bus_...13&ProductCate
goryID=1
They're a bit unwieldy,

Are they legal on UK roads? They may be too long.

but so would Croydon trams be if they really
had to mix with the traffic!

But trams steer the whole of themselves along the same route
automatically; that's not been my experience with articulated buses.

There's nothing wrong with rubber tyres - they
allow you to apply greater tractive and braking forces. That's why
many Paris Metro trains have them.

Not quite. It was seen as a way to provide greater acceleration within
the same basic design of Metro train. When Paris moved to all-motor
cars, rather than a mix of motor and trailer cars, the tyres were found
to be unnecessary (which is why no more lines have been converted).

6. One final point - buses require no fixed infrastructure to be built
on their route. You can run them on the road - brilliant! If there are
roadworks, you drive around them!

Or just cancel that part of the route.

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