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One thing I forgot to mention in the video is that the busway is 32 miles long. That is crazy long considering the entire thing (apart from the bridge) is segregated and has zero conflicting road junctions on the entire thing. It took me 1 hour and 20 mins to do the entire route at 10pm, which is an average speed of 24 mph, and the max speed is 43 mph. Buses are timetabled to run every 15 seconds in rush hour. Throughout the day I counted a bus every 20 seconds (this is an average as the buses bunch together into groups of buses), and despite how often the buses are, they are often full and you have to wait foe several buses to pass before you can fit inside one. The route runs 24 hours and at the quietest time of 3am there is a bus every 120 seconds.
Hi Ben!
Absolutely amazing.
only issue on the metrobus is that its one of the most used transit lines in istanbul, so it can get really crammed in buses. if that aint a problem for you then okay
Living in Turkey the only problem with the BRT are the people. They deployed couple more busses today and it still can't handle the amount of people on peak hours such as common job shift hours. If you are in or and will be in Turkey I can help you understand and film other transport systems in Turkey such as the tram lines and the metro lines.
My family’s origin country (Turkey) always has impressive public transport. Including escalators and lifts. Turkey is also known for their doctors, nurses, surgeons, and beauty specialists. The prices in Turkey are pretty cheap for most countries for buying products although it can be pricey for housing.
And Turkish cuisine is an absolute treat as well - I do love an authentic lamb kofte/shish kebab with salad and some rice! Absolutely epic food
@@gabrielstravels I only ate chicken nuggets and pizza in Turkey. The prices are crazy cheap, and the fast food tasted better than in the UK.
@@benolifts The Turks do make their own pizza as well! They call it lahmacun and pide. I tried the lahmacun and it was pretty good tbh!
@@gabrielstravels Oh yeah, they are the best.
Very interessant video! Thanks Beno
Welcome to Turkey Beno! You can find thyssen esclators in m2 metro line and you can find 5 thyssen lifts in metrocity shopping mall and also you can find strange otis indicators in Turkey.
Every 15 seconds? Impressive! That said I've not been to Istanbul yet... (I have been to Turkey once in 2015 but just as a day trip to Bodrum from the Greek islsnd of Kos)
6:15 The busway also runs Phileas bendy buses, but apparently they are really unreliable and is hard to find one in service
That’s not the most frequent bus though. 345K in Beijing in China has a normal 5 buses per minute frequency during the workday rush hour. They even designed a special platform to make sure a bus can be fully filled within 18 seconds.
There's one guided busway i don't know if you considered in the UK (i understand about the times at the moment with GoNorthWest having just taken over it from First) which is the Manchester to Atherton/Leigh guided busway V1/2? The Guided part starts in Ellenbrook, then goes to a P&R and small bus interchange where the 2 routes divide then one continues on the guided route to Leigh and the other goes to Atherton. Yes, it does have to cross junctions but it doesn't have to wait very long as its prioritised, but if you time it right, its a decent service into Manchester. This service is there because Leigh doesn't have a tram, or even a train service since the Beeching cuts in the 60s
I have been on this busway (although I was surfing the buses rather than riding inside them). It is an interesting busway, but is not anywhere near as good as Istanbul. The buses are very infrequent. For the general public to see these busway systems as something they would prefer to travel on than their own car, the system has to show that it is as good as a railway. All of the busways in the UK fail to do this. They need to run buses as often as the London underground runs trains. Also the Leigh busway suddenly ends in the middle of nowhere. Yet again another example of a busway that has been cut back to the point where it fails to achieve what it is designed to do. It should have been built to run the entire way from Leigh to Manchester, including bridges, tunnels, and large concrete structures to bypass over roads into the center of Manchester, which means that buildings would have to be knocked down that are in its way. Other countries are able to build these transport infrastructure projects properly, but the UK seems to be unable to nowadays.
Fantastic. We most likely will never get anything as good as that anywhere here in the UK. The Cambridge and Luton ones looked great though. Buses should have priority. Especially with trying to be more environmentally friendly, and especially with electric ones.
3:16 Metrobus is actually the company who runs the busway - the busway name is Fastway. I live near Crawley (when not at uni) and Fastway is yeah, just a typical UK bus service but improved
4:05 I could say the same for Bristol Metrobus - hell, only their m2 route (City Centre - Long Ashton P&R) actually has a short section of guided busways, the other routes are just normal buses with buy before you board ticketing and dual door buses
yoooo welcome on our country man
woah, you came to Türkiye!
because I live in capital Ankara I only got to experience the metrobus system 4 times (all in a single trip to İstanbul) but it sure was incredible how frequent the buses were. though even _that_ isn't enough with how fuckin overpopulated İstanbul is; I often see images of it get overwhelmed especially in rush hours.
As great as the system it is, I guess the frequent overcrowding means that it's time to convert Istanbul Metrobus into a tram or even a metro line...
i really don't know, feels like too many people too little space no matter what solution one tries to come up with.
@@gabrielstravels I am not sure if converting it into a metro line would increase capacity. There is already a huge number of buses which travel with very fast acceleration, and are very frequent. Not much more can be done, and the stations don't have any room to be expanded, due to it running in the middle of a dual carriageway. What Istanbul desperately needs is a new metro line that crosses between Europe and Asia. The metro system is divided into two halves in the most awkward inconvenient way.
@@benoliftsThere actually is one called Marmaray however it's too slow. Currently an express metro line called M34 Hızray is in the works, it will also make transiting to other metro lines easier.
Sadly it's still waiting approval from the central government despite the municipality being pretty much ready to begin construction.
There is two diffrent mercedes busses one is mercedes capacity and the other one is mercedes conecto g
Welcome to my home country Turkey Beno 🙂
How do they have so many buses and divers just for 1 route?? That’s crazy, every 20 seconds a bus!
And a lot of the buses are so crowded that it is standing room only
@@benolifts wtf
@@d947think about it like a normal tram line or underground route during peak hours that service is needed
actually its the most used public transport line in Istanbul with around a million daily users, there is a 400k difference between metrobus and most used metro line, m2, its more used than suburban rail aswell, and thats not because the rail network is small its actually pretty large with well over 400km of tracks its just that metrobus is so succesfull. its a great example of what brt os capable if its done well
Sick engine bro
Well at least it’s better than other busway including in Cambridge and Luton-Dunstable. Maybe more busways would be needed in bigger cities and towns.
You finally made it to Turkey!
thanks to Wizzz
The crawley busway is actually called the 'fastway' and yeah it makes no sense even having it when the route 100 dosent even touch the guided busway or really any bus lanes that other buses don't use and you will also notice that once the 100 and 20 leave sussex and go into surrey apart from the fastway sign on the buses and just 3 bus stops in horley with a fastway poster on them there is no sign of a busway.
Nice video🎉🎉🎉
this could be a great trolley bus system
It is a cheap alternative to a proper tram or suburban railway system
6:50 bus sounds like a distorted version of the Alexander Dennis 200EV BYD from London
Tbh - It sounds like a Skoda trolleybus but with a diesel engine...
That is an Akia bi articulated bus which had been manifactured in Bursa,Turkiye.
I can't choose between this and the Leigh guided busway
Victoria line busway
You should ride marmaray 😃
Istanbul is Europes Biggest/Largest City it’s a Mega city it’s Huge Massive the population is like 20 Million people that is why istanbul is currently Constructing 11 New underground Metro lines to stop traffic congestion
Why did they choose to drive on the left? How does left hand traffic merge with right had traffic on the bridge? Won’t the headlights blind oncoming traffic?
It has island platforms on a lot of the route, so they run the buses on the other side
@@benolifts ah yeah of course to maximise the limited space. Bit of a mind fuck
And when it merges with the cars for the bridge, the buses switch sides first
yeah, this was the best solution with LHD buses which have doors on the right
Reece Martin would go crazy over this busway.
Who is that?
@@benolifts He is a transit TH-camr who talks about various transit and how to improve it in cities. Here is his channel: youtube.com/@RMTransit
@@benolifts RMtransit, a youtuber who looks at unique and interesting transport systems.
RM Transit. Search him on TH-cam.
I have watched a few of his videos. I disagree with a lot of his opinions. He calls the VAL a gadgetbahn and claims that a regular metro would be better. I strongly disagree with this. The VAL is one of the best designed metros ever invented and outperforms the majority of other metros, and works seamlessly and perfectly. While it might propriety, which means that 3rd party companies can't work on it fully, however it means that Siemens is able to perfect every aspect of it down to the tiniest details which makes it work to perfection.
Ive often wondered what would happen if we made our railways into bus only roads and put 100 mph busses on them instead of trains. Would it be cheaper with better services? Only joking!!as I like trains.
Once you are in Turkey, take a visit to Greece!!!
He's been to Athens! You can find videos of Athens from his channel
that busway is backwards from normal traffic.
What’s interesting is rather than running every 20 secs if they could run double deckers increases profit.
The boarding times of double deckers is too slow. The route couldn't run with the capacity needed with slow boarding. 4 door bendy buses are very fast to board with all door boarding.
@@benoliftsAs much as I love double deckers for its scenery, this is exactly why bendy buses need to return to UK cities! The amount of dwell time on British buses especially outside London is pathetic with buses almost only having one door for entry and exit...
@@gabrielstravels woah that must really suck, even regular buses usually have three doors!
@@akyraisconfused Of course! Here in Italy it is the norm for city buses to have three doors at least, and that's on 12m long rigid single deckers we're talking about!
@@gabrielstravels 12 meter buses struggle in the UK. There is so much risk of tail strike the drivers have to drive them slowly. The UK's roads are very problematic in places.
Hey Austin this is guys
8:51 - that's not a bus, and it's on the busway...
It is a maintenance van for the busway. At least it isn't some ordinary car given vip status like on some busways
Compare this to Deutsche Bahn
First
Stagecoach
Arriva
Once you are in Turkey, take a visit to Greece!!!