Coachway interchange
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A coachway interchange (also transitway station, busway station) is a stopping place for express coach services near the trunk road/motorway road network. It relies on available local transport modes to complete individual journeys. Coachway interchanges help to achieve low overall journey times by avoiding operation through congested urban centres.[1][2]
History
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[edit | edit source]The Milton Keynes Coachway was the first to be called a coachway and has been in operation since 1989.[3][4]
Alan Storkey, a transport economist, proposed a motorway based coach system based on Coachway interchanges to the House of Commons Transport Select Committee in May 2006[5] and was promoted by George Monbiot in 2006.[6]
The South East England regional assembly gave support to the High Wycombe Coachway in December 2009.[7]
In January 2010, the South East England regional transport board criticised the plans published by the development authority for the 2012 Summer Olympics for not providing plans of a credible long term coach network saying 'The ODA has been working on an extensive network of coach services... [but] the lack of reference to this work [in the plan] is both intriguing and at the same time concerning.'[8]
Coachway stations in service
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- Milton Keynes Coachway (near M1 Junction 14), in operation since 1989, is the UK's second busiest coach station.[9][10] Its parking facility doubles as the local Park and Ride.
- Meadowhall Interchange (near M1 Junction 34) serves Sheffield.
- The Hard Interchange (at the end of the M275) serves Portsmouth.
- The Ferrytoll park and ride in south Fife is an important intermediate stop for many coach services between Edinburgh, Fife and the rest of Scotland.
- High Wycombe Coachway opened near Junction 4 of the M40 in January 2016.[11]
Other coachway interchanges are less formal. The Reading Coachway on the M4 motorway is more like a bus stop in a supermarket car park.
See also
[edit | edit source]- Coach transport in the United Kingdom
- Victoria Coach Station in central London is the UK's busiest and had been in operation since 1932.
- Bus rapid transit (A general article about bus rapid transport - similar issues for coach rapid transport)
References
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