Denmark's FIRST BRT line is now OPEN! The brand new Aalborg Plusbus (Bus Rapid Transit) 

Fascinating how Solaris makes such good BRT vehicles yet there's not a single such service in Poland.

denmark, where the buses are electric but the trains are not

While it definitely would've been better as a tram or even a trolleybus, this is still really cool to see! New transit is new transit and it's still exciting and I'm sure will do a good job serving Aalborg and the university. Having gone to university in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area in the United States for a few years now, I've had the chance to explore every line of the "BRT" system here. We have 5 BRT lines currently, with 2 more under construction right now and another 5 in planning stages. Personally I think we would have been much better off with a proper metro system, but the regional government here that runs the transit agency is dead set on making Minneapolis the "BRT Capitol of North America". We'll see how that goes. The problem is our current lines have limited dedicated lanes, limited signal priority, and are only about 20% faster at best than the regular buses. The only advantages they have over the regular buses is less frequent stops, nicer stations with offboard fare payment and nicer buses with 3 doors instead of 2 (on 3 of the lines, the other 2 just use nicer-looking regular buses). I'm definitely not sold on BRT as it's being implemented here in Minneapolis-St. Paul, but when done right it can be a solid solution if rail isn't an option. We also have 2 light rail lines, one of which has an extension that's under construction, but the light rail isn't much faster than the buses. The majority of one of the lines is street-running, and it just gets stuck at red lights all the time. The other line has a good amount of dedicated right-of-way, though. Our fastest transit is express buses that typically only run infrequently on weekdays. A lot are rush hour peak-direction only. It sucks to have transit that always takes at least twice as long as driving, but as someone who doesn't drive I'll take any improvements I can get.

I go to Aalborg University, and I can say from experience that line 2 buses tend to get crammed in the morning and afternoon, so this is a welcome improvement!

Holy crap, those buses are beautiful!

Our beautiful, Polish Solaris 😍🇵🇱

Fantastic overview of the new system Simon. I love the buses and the integrations with other modes. We can only dream of such infra in Ireland. Bravo Denmark.

Here in in Riyadh where I live, King Abdulaziz Transportation Project started operating around 2 years ago with the Bus section ( metro / subway section to be launched in coming months ). The shape of the city has changes so much after constructing both small and mega stations for transportation. These long buses became one of the main features in Riyadh now.

I was living in the city until 2020 when I moved out to Aarhus, but the construction work was already in process back then. As a public transport enthusiast I am very excited about this line. It is really awesome and I want to try it out as soon as possible. I definitely will. Thanks for the video riport.

It's quite interesting, electric double bendy busses have been driving around in Groningen for a couple of years now. They are so fascinating to see. Glad to see people Investing in good infrastructure.

This was a very calming video to watch and it was also well shot! Hälsningar från grannen!

The quality of the presentation and the shots are spectacular. It's been a while since I enjoyed a video this much. Thank you.

I really like the bus stations. Wish we had more BRT routes like this in the US

Great job with this BRT bus and I love how clean and tidy the city looks🫶 Electric buses are also a real upgrade with the inhabitants. I live next to a street with electric buses and a tram line. The buses are almost inaudible but the tram is almost loud enough to wake you at night.

It’s been a long time since I studied at AAU. Aalborg is looking great! Loved the video!

Huge, more beautiful then the double articulated BRTs we have in Brazil (Curitiba and Sao Paulo) amazing for such a small place

Fantastic overview of the new system. Bravo Denmark.🍻

My hometown here in Germany had buses with two flex-sections too. They retired them since it was more practical to just run normal buses on a tighter schedule.

many years ago I was stationed at Flyvestation Aalborg with ESK 721 and have many, many happy memories of the city. Thank you for a trip down memory (bus) lane, and showing how the city continues to thrive.

THE way to build a BRT line, well done Aalborg! :)

Those double bendy buses have been introduced in many cities in Switzerland in the recent years. Some cities are planning to replace those lines with trams in the coming decades if possible.

I live in Denmark, and never heard of this bus. Awesome.

This is a great video. Love stuff like this.

In Gothenburg in Sweden we have hade these types of buses (Volvo) with 2 articulations for heavy used trunk-bus-lines up untill 3 years ago This trunk-bus-line is now undergoing building for the new tramway route to Lindholmen

Simon, hello from Canada. I'm not an expert. Thank you for sharing this with us. It looks exciting to me. I'm really happy for the Danish people. RU-vid recommended this, even though I wasn't looking for information about the Danish people.

Wonderful. Thank you so much for sharing. Hopefully in time Indepenent Scotland can try to get a public transport system as good as the rest of the EU in time.

Beautiful I love it!

Your route maps are stunning, Simon!

Very well made video. Thank you.

This is a nice improvement for traveling , and in alot of ways better than trams.. I really enjoyed your video,, many thanks

Det så vi på tv, for et par dage siden❤

Great video !!

Thanks for another good video Simon!

This video almost had an RMTransit vibe. Good job.

Amazing simple technology to solve transport problems. But it would have been interesting to do this video on a Friday at about 17:30 to contrast. It looks like there is noone anywhere, I cant imagine seeing this sight in the UK, it is so clean, neat and organised. Thank you.

Meget imponerende video, Andersen. Og endnu mere imponerende respons of forklaringer du giver folk med spørgsmål i kommentarerne. Mange tak for fra tilfældig Aalborgenser.

Very cool video. ❤

Your accent sounds so nice to listen to! Great video by the way.

a few days ago, I rode on the double bend trolleybus in linz. quite a nice bus, and similar to the one you portray. for austrian streetworthyness a bit too long, but they actually work, so it is just a matter of changing laws (they operate on an excemption).

The constant roadwork here in øgadekvarteret has been a little rough, but so worth it. Loving the new Bornholmsgade with its bus stops and bike paths ❤

Good video :D Our Polish Solaris buses

My country should learn from this

wow thats some incredible bus stop infrastructe, greetings from jonkoping sweden

Very nice video! 😄 I'm hoping that we can see more of this type of development on BRT systems in Europe soon, as they're still surprisingly rare.

Cant wait to try it

Fantastic video mate. Just came across your channel. No buying detailed video! Subscribed

Thankyou for this vídeo

Beautiful Denmark Bus route ❤❤

Ploossbooss sounds so cool.

I've managed to take a photo of Bus 6110 at a autobahn rest stop in germany back in April this year (2023). cool to see them now xD didn't knew they were double bendy busses as it was only the front of it.

Thank you Hello Kia Ora Simon it was amazing and beautiful🌹 From New Zealand🙋‍♂ Sebastian

I am so impressed by the maps in your video! Definitely got a new subscriber! I was wanting to make similar videos for a while, can you share some details on how you made the animated map?

Interestingly, this BRT is served by beautiful Solarises. These're famous Polish city buses in production since 1999, the Solaris Urbino. The biarticulated version is called "Solaris Urbino 24" and is newest type in Solaris' portfolio. It's known for green dachshound mascot! Also, greetings from Kraków, the former capital of Poland.

Most interesting Simon, Thank you.

When i go to and from school i usaly see them and its cool. Its kinda fun to be in school and be abel to see them pas by.

I really like them; they're so much cheaper than installing rails everywhere. Your English is excellent, by the way, but if you'd welcome a tip: 'watch out for' means 'beware', and 'look out for' is used when drawing attention to something interesting (like the art installations). 😉

Fun fact, Solaris was founded in Poland and buses are all made there, but it's now owned by Spanish train manufacturer CAF

So excited for these buses to be put in service in Brisbane, they are so nice.

So the wheel of the rearmost vehicle is also a driving wheel and contributes to right and left turns. Amazing!

I like how silent they are compared to light rail.

It’s interesting to see something about your own city meant for everyone. It’s also just interesting to hear Danes accent in English

I’ve always believed that if demand exists for a BRT, it also exists for a tram line. And admittedly, that should have been a tram.

Looks cool

Very nice, like.

Thanx for the very nice presentation! I lived in Aalborg many years before moving to Odense. You are lucky with the BRT system, most ppl in Odense hate the Light Rail .. and for good reasons at that.

a tram would be better!

nice! greetings from aalborg!

great video! super interesting

Those 'double bend' type of busses have been driving around in Utrecht for several years now. Amazing how many people can fit in.

What big bussssssssss!!! Nice!🚎🚌

As a former city bus driver who drove articulated buses, I'd love to try them both as driver and passenger.

I love how the windows are tinted too, gives you that sense of privacy, like sometimes you get the not so good ones around if you know what I mean. Plus hope they have USB charge points and good ticket options. Coming from the UK we have double deckers, trams and sort of long buses to transport people. Maybe come and check us out us out, may have to try Denmark out one day.

It looks very nice. In my city of Brisbane, Australia, the city is set to roll out a BRT of its own (the misleadingly named Brisbane Metro), which is also a bi-articulated electric bus that is 24 metres long that makes use of the city's extensive already-existing busway network to the southeast and north via the city. The original idea was to rebuild the light rail but because the local government are notoriously cheap they went with the BRT. But I'm not complaining since the busways mean they'll be the only vehicles on the road with an expected frequency of 4-7 minutes. The bus stops are being rebuilt to accommodate the larger vehicles and it's expected to open at the end of 2024. Given how good the Aalborg BRT looks, I'm excited for the Brisbane BRT.

That’s a big bus! (Which is also a great film).

reminds me of ottawa ontario, should be a tram or small metro, but was turned into a trasitway. but that system looks so much better despite having some shared spaces.

this is beautiful and oh so quiet. A great, cheaper alternative to trams.

This is a kind of serene and nice bus. 고요하고 일종의 버스

Now taking the bus will be fun again.

det ser fedt ud!

Fed bus 🤩

Mange tak for info.. Har været de fleste steder.. Men havde ingen anelse om tilkørsel til det nye hospital osv.. Så mange tak for grundig video :)

This is awesome. A much better system than what Aarhus currently has implemented - in my opinion.

Flot video, godt gennemarbejdet. Giver et godt indtryk af Ålborg. Jeg kender ikke byen, men min nevø har boet der i nogle år nu.

Partial trolleybus variation of these big boys gonna run in Prague and Bratislava.

Tram or light rail would probably have been better for the 2 itself, which is in the end the most important line in the city, but it is really not to be understated how nice it was that this solution came with dedicated bus lanes for other lines on the busy parts of the Aalborg Station Grønlands Torv section.

Looking at the bus design, my mind wanders to the bus fight sequence in Shang-Chi

Looks very good for a BRT system, it’s a shame it got downgraded from a light rail. Definitely think they should have used trolley buses instead off battery though

I studied at Aalborg University... congratulations Aalborg... from Vietnam

We love our very bendy buses in Budapest for a long while now :)

Nice to see super bendy bus is not just a city skylines thing

Its nice to See a Polish SOLARIS bus In Denmark!!

Those long buses are great! We've had similar ones in Zurich for a couple of years and I really like the additional space compared to the two-section buses. People sometimes say "Just use regular buses on a tighter schedule" but that doesn't work out: Even though people know that another bus will arrive very quickly, they will prefer to cram themselves into an already full bus rather than give up two minutes of their valuable time to wait for the next nearly empty one...

Fellas, we all just excitedly watched a video detailing a new buss line in a small Danish city. And undoubtedly was this the first, nor last such video that will be watched. Have anyone else ever paused to ponder: Am I one of the weird ones? Not as if that's gonna stop my transit-fascination! :^)

Weve had double bend buses in Hamburg for many, many years. But they got replaced with extra long single bend buses (Mercedes CapaCity L).

In Hamburg we had a similar bus a few years ago, altho it wasn't electric. We had the Van Hool AGG 300, but it was phased out after some time, because there were some safety concerns and most importantly maintenance issues.

Nifty to see Aalborg evolve in such a way, been a while since I've visited. PS! Would love to see the bus depot itself and how those buses are charging as well as information about travel length on one charge as well as how lot it takes to re-charge. About 15 minutes for Moscow's electrical buses and their range is about 80 km's.

Tilykke! BRT was being planned 10 years ago (~ 2012-13) in Kobenhavn. Afaik, a corridor was identified too (don't recall that now). Looks like nothing moved on that. Cityring finished before that. Edit- will probably look at my notes from long time ago. Hopefully I find something interesting.

Lindos, silenciosos e eficientes. Essa é a receita do sucesso, da tranquilidade e da qualidade de vida.

Wow! It's huge! While wheels can be good,when they get this big,I think tracks are better.😅

this style of BRT should've also been the base of my city's "BRT" - the Haifa Metronit. At first, it was much closer to this by having all the ticketing systems outside the bus at the stations of the Metronit, but following the operator change from Dan North to Superbus, the ticketing system was sort set to stay the same but ended up being just like on the standard Haifa buses - inside the bus. The Metronit system primarily relies on Golden Dragon buses plastered with Superbus branding and just a small sticker noting "Metronit" near the middle of the bus, as Superbus is also operating the exact same buses in Jerusalem on some lines too. The older Dan North buses didn't even have any identations of the make or the operator of the bus on the exterior, aside a front badge that said "Metronit" on it. You can still find these buses operating in the Tel-Aviv district for Dan North's parent company - Dan, on route 1 (unsure where does it go, but I've seen pictures and in person). Now, about the current bus mix of today's Metronit by Superbus: the 2 primary variants that started operating following the operator change sometime around 2021-2022 were either a pre-built Golden Dragon bus imported to Israel from China, or a type of Otokar Kent C 18 bus made in Turkiye and imported to Israel, but I've been noticing that it has been slowly disappearing in favor of a Chinese frame-Israeli body bus based on an electric Golden Dragon frame brought to Israel, then the body (the Pioneer by Merkavim) is assembled over the frame (probably a common method other countries do such too to save costs) and there's your bus. Interesting fact: when the Metronit was first in a building phase (making way for the lanes and building the stations) the Metronit was always depicted as a two-bend bus, unlike the actual result that is a standard single-bend 18m long bus.