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Guided Bus [was: Epping-Ongar news?]
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... In uk.local.east-anglia Robin May wrote: wrote the following in: The route 66 bus from Ipswich station to Martlesham has a short section in one of the Ipswich suburbs where it runs between guides and thus the driver doesn't have to steer. Is this what the question was about? How do these guides work? There are a couple of little wheels either side at the front of the bus, these wheels are horizontal with the spindles vertical. I guess they're around 9" diameter and a foot or so from the ground. These run against a raised guide either side of the track the bus runs along. Presumably there's a servo system that detects pressure on the wheels and thus steers the bus. Do they look anything like those in like the guidewheel shown in the second photo at http://www.camcycle.org.uk/newsletters/49/article1.html (you'll need to scroll down a bit) ? That photo is taken from Cambridgeshire County Council's own publicity. It would be useful to know whether the Ipswich scheme is similar to the one proposed for Cambridgeshire PaulO |
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