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

Wow a BRT line that doesn't look horribly implemented like so many BRT-lite systems in the US...this line reminds of the only good BRT that I've seen in Eugene Oregon

det ser fedt ud!

BRT 🚅🚎

NIce, but quite silly not to use battery range extended trolleybuses in this route. The battery packs would be much smaller and can be charged in the wired sections.

We need more Trolleybusses again. I don’t understand why so many cities prefer electric buses over trolleybuses or hydrogen buses.

I wonder what the life cycle cost of the electric bus line is versus that of a tram line or a trolleybus line. Trams and trolleybuses don't need an expensive heavy battery. Trolleybusses will have a smaller impact on the road, so the road can be cheaper and last longer. Then, if we are building a dedicated lane anyway, why not build rails in the first place? The capital cost of buing a large number of electric buses is pretty high and swapping batteries in a few years won't be cheap too.

never before have i wanted more to take a trip to 9000.

kan de bakke er spørgsmålet. Fin video Simon. Godt brug af google maps med grafik. Hilsen fra Aarhus :D

Its literaly a tram at this point 💀

luvvv danish

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

Hmm interestingly As A USA person.. The lower curbs heights kinda look NOT safe. But if that were true lolz

Where do the busses recharge? Any information about how long they can ride until they are out of power?

I just can’t help but notice that we are just reinventing the tram
Which doesn’t even require batteries which imo is a big plus

It's sad to see some of the only Vanhool new A-class busses in service. Knowing there will not be any more coming into service.
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Solaris always makes very nice and stunning busses. I'm happy for Aalborg that they got these state-of-the-art buses.

The government is bad at planning cancelling new train infrastructure, also happened in Silkeborg. Yet those incompetent bastards over-build expensive motorways like crazy. Now we have a giant, noisy, polluting, climate damaging, traffic causing, dangerous motorway running through our city, I can hardly even take a walk without having to put up with the noise from it and traffic has gotten a lot worse since in the city because of induced demand. They could have fixed the traffic with more public transit and train lines. They were going to build a line from Aarhus to Silkeborg that would take 20 minutes but it was cancelled and we're stuck with the old route that takes 50 minutes.

They could not care less about the climate if they wanted to. If you do not own a car you're subsiding people who do. I wish I could choose where my taxes went, I do not want to subsidize car infrastructure that is actively hurting the climate and making my life and city worse. Public infrastructure everybody can use, road infrastructure only the privileged can use, so they spent billions building a highway through my city using my taxes and I can't even use it and just have to put up with the noise, pollution, and dangerous traffic? Thanks, thanks a lot Denmark.

the fact that people still pays to get on, when the whole system is open like that is beyond me

These kind of articulated busses are already in use for decades in the city Utrecht (the Netherlands).

In Bratislava, we got about 16 Bi-articulated trolleybuses from Solaris riding on line 71 and the info speaker in buses is now AI. EDIT: they are 24.7 meters long.

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Not sure LRT would be any faster given the travel on unprotected streets. Aalborg did very well!

Very well made video. Thank you.

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

Does anyone else hate how small the side walls on the "new modern" bus shelters are? it looks like a big massive expensive shelter but does nothing to shield from cold winds, especially in the winter.

nineteen eighty-four.

Man I remember bendy buses used to be in my local area here in the UK. But seeing a triple bendy bus is wild. 😳

These buses used to be in mumbai, india around 2000-2005

in other countries they automize it and call it ART lol

I prefer this over that infamous fake ART

You... can bring a bike in a bus?!! 🤩

i dont find them for small streets and towns. I dont like them

BRT systems are great.

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

Your comment about politicians, budget and letbane is not appropriate.
While your english pronoinciation is fine, your script needs revision by a native speaker. Home made English sounds less professional.

We have hade this in Istanbul since 2000s I believe. "Metrobus"

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.

I wish Aarhus would also implement this system, as compliment to Letbanen L1 and L2.

This is obtainable in nearby Malmo. Why is it new in Denmark

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

15 minute frequency for a BRT is a bit too low for my liking. Without rapid frequency, the system is just a very nice busway. I'm hoping in the future, they increase frequency either by adding more buses to the route, or having more lines run through the busway, creating a high frequency trunk.

Spick and span public transport !

Now I wanna say Choo Choo bus chugging on the street 😅

I got this recommended by chance. I live along the route, so it's pretty funny to see this video.

Rigtig fin video Simon!

This is quite an interesting solution. I’m residing in Melbourne in Australia where we have pretty much the biggest tram network in the world however I travel to Denmark frequently and I find that it’s really situational based. Sometimes trams are good and sometimes buses are good. Going from taking trams everywhere in the city to an electric bus is a very different experience and I quite enjoy it however I feel as if a tram line could also work here too.

Just pray to god it never catches fire next to any building 🤣

Great video and grate sistem, all the best in the future from 🇷🇸

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