Gallery 258: Luton-Dunstable busway

Pictures from August 2013     

Bus services on the £91m Luton Dunstable Busway are due to begin on Wednesday 25 September 2013, linking the two town centres in 15 minutes.

Three bus companies - Arriva, Centrebus and Grant Palmer - will operate four new routes that together provide core services between Dunstable and Luton up to every seven minutes at peak times.

The core busway route comprises 6.1 miles of segregated bus-only road between Blackburn Road in Houghton Regis, through Dunstable and into Luton town centre.

Within this, a 4.8-mile section of concrete guideway has been built along the disused Luton-Dunstable railway corridor so that standard buses fitted with two small guide wheels can join and leave the track and travel on it in both directions smoothly and safely at speeds of up to 50mph.