To service Adelaide's eastern suburbs (which do not have a train line), a very unique form of transportation was implemented. Opening in 1986, the Adelaide O-Bahn guided busway provide buses with an express concrete 'track' directly from the CBD to Tea Tree Plaza via two intermediate stations at Klemzig and Paradise. Buses using the busway have special guide wheels on the side to enable them to seamlessly traverse bends in the track as it follows the River Torrens. They reach speeds of 90 km/h on the track, although it used to be 100 in the past. A more recently completed part of the O-Bahn opened in 2017 with a new bus tunnel linking directly from Grenfell Street in the city to Hackney Road, where bus lanes lead them to the original start of the busway.
In this video we simply take a ride from the city to the terminus of the busway at Tea Tree Plaza interchange at the back of an articulated bus, and then back to the city from the front, both in real-time. There is an extensive history regarding the construction of the O-Bahn and the interchanges in between, which is too much to be including in this video, so click on the links below to learn more about it:
Overall O-Bahn Overview: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-Bahn_...
Grenfell Street: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfel...
Klemzig Interchange: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klemzig...
Paradise Interchange: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradis...
Tea Tree Plaza Interchange: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Tre...
Adelaide Buses Overview: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buses_i...
Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
01:26 - Outbound Journey (City & Tunnel)
03:08 - Outbound Journey (Hackney Road - Klemzig)
08:15 - Outbound Journey (Klemzig - Paradise)
11:20 - Outbound Journey (Paradise - Tea Tree Plaza)
17:10 - Tea Tree Plaza Interchange
21:10 - Inbound Journey (Tea Tree Plaza - Paradise)
26:21 - Inbound Journey (Paradise - Klemzig)
29:02 - Inbound Journey (Klemzig - Hackney Road)
33:50 - Inbound Journey (Tunnel & City)
35:50 - Concluding Note
Filmed on: 30/01/2023.
5 июл 2024
