(Yesterday, 11:31 am)Adrian wrote The Centrelink scheme was late 90s, so it was a completely different world back then. Metrocentre was booming at the time, and indeed it was a regular feat to see those Centrelink Scanias full to the brim. It's the kind of scheme that we need to see more of, very much in the same way as guided busways have taken off towards Leigh, in Cambridge and in Luton.
That's the problem though isn't it. These schemes cost a fortune, take forever and by the time they are implemented the world has moved on and they are huge white elephants which are largely deserted, much like the Felling bypass buslane that was also mentioned previously. Sees a handful of buses an hour (if they are even running) at the expense of a lane of traffic. The last thing we need is more public money wasted on pointless infrastructure that isn't used because things move on.
We see the same with bus technology. Huge fanfare for the hybrids early 2010s - GNE and SNEs knackered within little over a decade. The expense of the gas buses - ditto, bit over 10 years and rip it all out. Largley all replaced by older, diesel vehicles which still work and didnt have half of the upfront public cost (the gas buses at least I am sure were part public funded).