Pretty interesting milestone from France. The city of Caen had a guided busway prototype, which was fraught with problems. This was essentially Bombardier's take on LOHR's Translohr ("Tram-on-tyres") system, which has had many successful installations around the world. They replace the entire system with conventional tramway, and just took delivery of the first Alstom LRV.
I can't even imagine how they are selling this to the city, and that's why I find this project so interesting - only a handful of times in history has an entire technology been replaced in this kind of 1:1 fashion. Jacksonville's done it (MATRA VAL 256 was replaced with a Universal Mobility monorail), as an example - but it's exceedingly rare.
I can't even imagine how they are selling this to the city, and that's why I find this project so interesting - only a handful of times in history has an entire technology been replaced in this kind of 1:1 fashion. Jacksonville's done it (MATRA VAL 256 was replaced with a Universal Mobility monorail), as an example - but it's exceedingly rare.