The Glider Bus Rapid Transit System | Translink Belfast 

Great video! I subscribed. Hopefully I will get on the Gliders in the summer as last week I didn't get a chance to ride them.

Thank you so much! Rather scared of travelling this way, in case I got lost. But sounds good. Thanks

Many thanks for this - I've been wanting to see a detailed review of the Glider system. I agree with your point about cross city services; I've never understood why most bus companies don't do this as a general policy. They seem hung up on the idea that you must 'grade' bus routes by what they see as their 'milkability' - how much custom/money the route makes. So some routes get buses every 10 minutes, others every 20 minutes etc., which makes linking them up across the centre problematical. I think this is an error of judgment - the London Underground, with frequent cross-city trains on most lines, works brilliantly. In fact people's transit needs don't go by the kind of area they live in, and maybe hard-nosed commercial bus operators are just not capable of running a service which gives everyone a frequent service which runs more than just 9am-6pm.

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Wow. These look very similar to our trams in Nottingham - doubtlessly a damned sight cheaper than the ridiculously expensive £500m+ for our recent extension.

Glad you finally got around to bussing in Northern Ireland! have you any plans to come to Dublin? and maybe check out some of the NTA Bus Connects project?

Glider started in September 2018 the stop you were getting on at on the G2 at titanic quarter into city centre is a Further education collage called belfast Met so it can be a very busy stop at Times

Sprint is getting some of these vanhools, 20 of them I believe operated by National Express along with their hydrogen streetdecks and mmcs upon launch of sprint and these vanhools being rolled out on the service, when that happens maybe you could do a video on them.

Wow they do look like the old Hyperlink/FTR StreetCars. Maybe with Tap On and Tap Off they might work over here without the need of a Bus Conductor. Still much better than the older Volvo B10LA. One fault with the Hyperlinks was you had to board them through front entrance but could depart from front or rear.

In September we are staying at the Holiday Inn Express in Belfast. Does the Glider or other busses frequent the Belfast City Airport?

Glad to see they have the Irish language on the speaker system .

I really hope you can do buses down in Cornwall, it is really awkward with the narrow lanes

Love it it looks like a tram

I saw these on Wyca as possibly proposed for the mass transit. I hope we dont get these and we go for Light Rail like Gm as the high platforms makes it nice.

Hello! All the bus stops has this translink machine?

Glider would pretty much be what would happen if FTRmetro wasn't bad

Oh fuckin hell, is that what they are? That's what they're getting in Walsall

To be honest they seem old fashioned these days, reminds me of the awful bendy buses in Aberdeen run by First. Even more surprising they run with diesel. Our entire bus fleet in Inverness is completely electric and really nice to travel on and seem far more advanced. Even Aberdeen has a mixture of Hydrogen double decker bus fleet with First and electric bus fleet with Stagecoach.

I was at here at sunday

I like to think that Glider has started the comeback of bendy buses in the UK.