At the very best there are design choices here that are limiting its overall performance in order to make it cheaper and less invasive to install. Similar to a BRT.
It is possible that there is a use case for lower density areas where the lower costs could help make or break a business case.
To my mind though a city or large town is not the use case we know the answer for that and its regular light rail done consistently and coherently across the country to achieve economies of scale (as they have done in France). Sadly, the UK can’t get past its ideology that money spent on public transport infrastructure is a waste whereas it is an investment in functioning economies.
At the very best there are design choices here that are limiting its overall performance in order to make it cheaper and less invasive to install. Similar to a BRT.
It is possible that there is a use case for lower density areas where the lower costs could help make or break a business case.
To my mind though a city or large town is not the use case we know the answer for that and its regular light rail done consistently and coherently across the country to achieve economies of scale (as they have done in France). Sadly, the UK can’t get past its ideology that money spent on public transport infrastructure is a waste whereas it is an investment in functioning economies.