Interesting Links for 21-03-2017

[andrewducker]

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Comments

[danieldwilliam]

I'm pleased about the 10 and 23 Sunday service. Those are the rugby buses.

[andrewducker]

Aaah, handy!

Lothian Buses do seem to be very on-the-ball with expanding routes when the numbers are good.

[danieldwilliam]

There service does seem to be expanding.

I could do with them increasing the frequency of the 41 and 47 and re-routing the 36 so it goes closer to work by one stop.

I wonder how they decide which services to expand.

[momentsmusicaux]

Trolley wires for trucks... it's like maybe they've forgotten that railways exist...

[a_pawson]

Except these have an advantage over trains - they can leave the wires and do the last part of the delivery journey on their own using battery or diesel power. This makes an awful lot of sense. Build some long trunk routes up and down the country where the lorries can do the majority of their journey using electric power. Then when they get near their destination, the lorries exit and do the last few miles under their own power.

[danieldwilliam]

My guess is that by the time we've built the trunk routes we'll have self-driving delivery trucks and roboticised loading and unloading faciities so the goods could move by train and then seemlessly on to local delivery trucks.

[andrewducker]

If you can containerise train goods transport to that extent, then yeah. But that's a lot of extra trains you're probably putting onto the lines, and I'd want to be sure that they could handle the right kinds of load without disrupting passenger services.