Fastrack Aims
For Fastrack to play its expected role in getting people around Kent Thameside it has to become the travel mode of choice for local journeys by providing:
- A real alternative to the car for local journeys
- High quality, modern and environmentally friendly vehicles
- A frequent ‘turn up and go’ service with journey time reliability ensured through vehicles running on segregated track wherever possible and with effective priority over other traffic elsewhere
- A customer-focussed system with clear branding, ‘real time’ information and close attention to personal safety
- Effective interchange with other transport modes, linking existing and new communities
Although a bus based BRT system, Fastrack is aiming to provide a travel experience very different to conventional perceptions of a bus. Instead it aims to become a transport mode of choice. To achieve this Fastrack has:
- A fleet of modern, high-specification vehicles
- Dedicated busways to bypass congestion hotspots
- Bus lanes to avoid other traffic
- Priority at junctions for Fastrack vehicles over other traffic
- High quality stops with improved waiting facilities
- Services linking key destinations
- Services running at greater frequency than most current buses and starting earlier in the day and finishing later
- Much improved consistency of journey times and reliability