| Comment | What was the city?
There's an extremely good chance there was some form of bus-traffic separation going on, even if it was only in key spots.
I can think of a couple of big cities I've been to which have proportionally more cars than us on the roads, but their bus services run like clockwork by having extensively dedicated routes clear from other traffic.
It's not just about numbers of cars either in proportional terms. It's about road space and what you do with it. I can't remember the figure off hand but for cities in the British Isles Glasgow has the single highest percentage of land space provided to private vehicles (as opposed to other uses, such as pavements, bus lanes, cycle lanes etc.).
Congestion caused by the volume of cars on the road is what killed off Glasgow's trams in the 50s and the trolleybuses which replaced them in the 60s. What happened to the tram and trolleybus has been the status quo for buses for about four decades. |
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