
Crawley Fastway is a guided bus public transport service linking parts of Crawley with the nearby Gatwick Airport. The project is not yet complete but buses are running on a section of the scheme from Bewbush, Crawley, in the South of Crawley, to Gatwick. ==Overview== The Fastway project is a multi-phase project to improve bus services in the Crawley, Gatwick and Horley area. The project includes * the provision of new bus lanes, including guided bus lanes * the construction of new bus waiting shelters * electronic real-time passenger information * a new fleet of low-floor access buses ==History== Phase one of the Fastway service commenced in September 2003 between Bewbush and Gatwick. The opening was attended by Tony McNulty MP, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport and local dignataries. The service was extended to 24 hour operation in May 2004. The service now runs every 10 minutes during the day and every 20-30 minutes in the early morning, evening and Sunday. ==Route== The phase one service runs from Bewbush, Crawley via Breezehurst Drive and Pelham Drive to Broadfield, Crawley. From there the service runs via Coachmans Drive, the Broadfield Stadium and Southgate Avenue to Crawley town centre Bus Station and Broadway. Buses then proceed via High Street and London Road to Manor Royal, Crawley industrial estate. Finally, the service goes via Gatwick Road and City Place business park to Gatwick airport itself. ==Construction Works== Works on the phase one route included: * A new bus-only short cut at Broadfield Stadium, protected by raising bollards to block other traffic * New bus lanes along sections of Southgate Avenue. * Conversion of three town-centre roundabouts and two on Southgate Avenue to traffic lights, plus the addition of new traffic lights on Southgate Avenue. * Blocking off connecting roads from Southgate Avenue. * New bus lane on High Street to avoid the one-way system * New bus lanes at the London Road/Crawley Road roundabout * Traffic lights on dual carrigeway to provide access from City Place retail park to Gatwick Airport. Works still ongoing include: (now finished - May 05) * Guideway down the centre of London Road * Dedicated bus lane through the heart of the Tushmore roundabout * Re-routing traffic lanes on Tushmore roundabout * Dedicated bus lanes within the existing carriageway in Manor Royal * Improvements to the footways and cycleways in Manor Royal * Upgrading the existing road surfaces in Manor Royal * Improvements to the Manor Royal / London Road junction and the Fleming Way / Faraday Road junction Future construction work will include: (work started - May 05) * Widening of the carriageway on Haslett Avenue East to provide dedicated bus lanes * Replacing roadway with bus guideway on Haslett Avenue East on the eastbound approach to Three Bridges Road. * A new traffic light controlled junction on the western arm of the Squareabout. ==Promoters== The Fastway project is promoted by a Public-Private Partnership. The consortium includes West Sussex, Surrey, Crawley, Reigate and Banstead, BAA plc, British Airways, Metrobus (bus operator in south-east England) and the Go-Ahead Group. There is also additional support from the UK Department for Transport. Funding is being raised both from the public and private elements of the consortium. The projected cost is £32 million, with £7.5 million from West Sussex County Council. The final cost of the scheme is still unknown. The bus operator, Metrobus, has stated that passenger figures are up 10%, with 35% of all journeys being to and from Gatwick. One million passengers were carried in the first seven months of operation. It has also indicated that delays have been reduced due to the new bus lanes and bus gate. ==Opposition== The Fastway project has sharply divided opinion in the local area. Concern has focussed on a number of areas: * Design of new bus lanes, notably with regards to safety. * Low use of guided bus sections. * Impact during construction. * Schedule - Phase 1 completed four months late, Phase 2 already overrun. * Loss of green areas, cycle lanes, road space and pedestrian routes to bus lanes. ==External links== *[http://www.fastway.info Official Site] *[http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/content/roads-and-transport/roadworks-information/location/ Partial list of roadworks in Crawley] *[http://www.transportbriefing.co.uk/briefings/fastwaybriefing.htm TransportBriefing.co.uk report on Crawley Fastway] Covers just the actual journey, no details on the system. *[http://corporateresponsibility.go-ahead.com/case.asp?id=253 Go-Ahead group page on Fastway] *[http://www.metrobus.co.uk/fastway/ Metrobus Fastway timetables] Busways Bus transport in the United Kingdom
This article has had several additions by IP addresses used only for those additions e.g. * 84.66.43.80 * 81.76.105.104 * 194.203.128.61 Some of these may have violated the Neutral point of view rule, or at least should be looked at for bias. There may be a number of parties who do not wish to see this project represented honestly fo whatever reason. It is certainly a cause of controvesy and resentment in the Crawley area. I too may be biased since I live in Crawley and have witnessed first hand the work required for this scheme. Please take the above into account when editing the article, and try to keep it Neutral point of view. User:Akadruid 08:15, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC) ---- Akadruid, using such emotive language (in particular excessive use of the word 'destruction'), is clearly on a anti-Fastway rant - and I can't see how he can seriously criticize for me for not being neutral. Whenever I've made edits where I've tried to add a positive remark, I usually include a negative remark as well. Any reader would think there was no reason at all for the Fastway scheme except to annoy residents and local businesses. Whenever any large scale scheme is constructed, there is always disruption and it is naive to think otherwise. P.S. I live in Crawley and have also been affected by construction works, and I don't live on the main Fastway sections, although I have benefitted from the Haslett Avenue bus lane which doesn't directly serve Fastway. I have no vested interest in Fastway, other than an occassional user. :OK, that's pretty reasonable. I doubt I have a NPOV since I also live in Crawley. The scheme is having a very negative effect on me and those around me, and we can never use any of it since it doesn't cover our area. The sheer waste of it frustrates me - I'm used to local authorites wasting thousands on trivia such as silk flags and rusty statues but spending so many millions and disrupting so many for a service that will benifit very few, even if successful, seems to me to be a criminal abuse of trust. :Given my position, I'll leave the article alone for now to allow people to reestablish a NPOV. User:Akadruid ---- I want to agree that this page appears to have serious NPOV issues. I live in Horsham, the neighbouring town to Crawley. From my perspective I have not come across any great controversy other than would be expected for a large scheme of this nature. The opening paragraph: :"Crawley Fastway is a controversial project to provide a new guided bus service linking some areas of Crawley in southern England with the nearby Gatwick Airport. The project has required the destruction of large sections of the existing road infrastructure, and has run into heavy local opposition." would be better phrased along the lines of: :"Crawley Fastway is a guided bus service linking suburbs of Crawley with the nearby Gatwick Airport. The service utilises a mixture of on-road, bus-lane and dedicated guided bus sections." It may be boring, but it is NPOV. User:Scolebourne 15:05, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC) ::The intro sentance needs some work. I don't know whether your proposal fits though, since it makes it sound as if the project is complete, or nearly so. 'guided bus service' is inaccurate, since it only uses a few yards of guideway. ::I don't know that there is anyone who considers it uncontroversial though. The bus drivers hate it, the people who use have nothing good to say about it, CBC go to some lengths to distance themselves from it, business groups have condemned it and other road users naturally despise it. The only people I know who have openly supported it are the 'Go-Ahead' group, who own the bus company and partly funded it, and the West Sussex 'Transport Planning Group' or whatever they call themselves down in Chichester. ::Anyhow, I don't really think I can make it NPOV, so someone else Be Bold and edit please! User_talk:Akadruid)">User:Akadruid|akaDruid (User talk:Akadruid) 09:23, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC) --- Well, the request was to be bold, so I was. The page is basically completely rewritten. I have tried to take a fact based approach, and exclude all emotive language and issues. If you feel that something is factually incorrect, please comment, or if you feel something is materially missed out, thus resulting in a bias, please say. I am hoping that with a few more edits we can get this NPOV resolved. (I need to research how NPOV is officially 'resolved'). I also started a process of unifying the page names of the Crawley suburbs. --User:Scolebourne 00:44, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC) ---- I think the article may now have its NPOV marking removed. I will do that in a week or so if no one objects. Also, I propose to rename this article 'Fastway'. Currently, 'Fastway' links to 'Crawley Fastway'. I believe this to be appropriate because: 'Fastway' is the name used in nearly all promotion and discussion about the project even outside the local area - the term 'Crawley Fastway' has only been used here in Wikipedia and; Fastway is planned to serve Horley, which is considered to be distinct from Crawley. Some sources use the term 'Gatwick Fastway' which could have a link to 'Fastway'. -User:Radamfi 13:16, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC) ---- Well, Akadruid hasn't learned his lesson - after swearing off editing the page he has ruined the hard work done by others by his continuing ranting. -User:Radamfi 15:14, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC) :Thank you for looking at the article, and I accept your point, although I feel the language is too strong. I'm all for making a good article, so I'll keep off the page, and limit myself to adding comments here. Would it be rude to ask if you are an advocate of bus systems like these? Your edit history implies an interest in the area. :Perhaps someone would like to look at the history of the article and re-add some of the objections to the system in a NPOV fashion. They have been published in the media, and I believe they are commonly held objections. :If it helps anyone to make a judgement on my edits, my involvement is this: I am a Crawley resident, but outside of area served by this project. I witness first hand the problems and costs for those who don't use the service, which I understand to be over 95% of the local population. As you can imagine, it is somewhat painful to watch this, given the cost to us tax payers and the only real benefit is going to the bus company. :Anyway, that's the end of my little rant, hope I haven't caused offense, and I hope someone can help create an article that conveys the views of the bus company, the council, and the local residents. I'll go and work on User:Akadruid#Recent Edits! User:Akadruid 11:29, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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Crawley Fastway is a guided bus public transport service linking parts of Crawley with the nearby Gatwick Airport. The project is not yet complete but buses are running on a section of the scheme from Bewbush, Crawley, in the South of Crawley, to Gatwick. ==Overview== The Fastway project is a multi-phase project to improve bus services in the Crawley, Gatwick and Horley area. The project includes * the provision of new bus lanes, including guided bus lanes * the construction of new bus waiting shelters * electronic real-time passenger information * a new fleet of low-floor access buses ==History== Phase one of the Fastway service commenced in September 2003 between Bewbush and Gatwick. The opening was attended by Tony McNulty MP, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport and local dignataries. The service was extended to 24 hour operation in May 2004. The service now runs every 10 minutes during the day and every 20-30 minutes in the early morning, evening and Sunday. ==Route== The phase one service runs from Bewbush, Crawley via Breezehurst Drive and Pelham Drive to Broadfield, Crawley. From there the service runs via Coachmans Drive, the Broadfield Stadium and Southgate Avenue to Crawley town centre Bus Station and Broadway. Buses then proceed via High Street and London Road to Manor Royal, Crawley industrial estate. Finally, the service goes via Gatwick Road and City Place business park to Gatwick airport itself. ==Construction Works== Works on the phase one route included: * A new bus-only short cut at Broadfield Stadium, protected by raising bollards to block other traffic * New bus lanes along sections of Southgate Avenue. * Conversion of three town-centre roundabouts and two on Southgate Avenue to traffic lights, plus the addition of new traffic lights on Southgate Avenue. * Blocking off connecting roads from Southgate Avenue. * New bus lane on High Street to avoid the one-way system * New bus lanes at the London Road/Crawley Road roundabout * Traffic lights on dual carrigeway to provide access from City Place retail park to Gatwick Airport. Works still ongoing include: (now finished - May 05) * Guideway down the centre of London Road * Dedicated bus lane through the heart of the Tushmore roundabout * Re-routing traffic lanes on Tushmore roundabout * Dedicated bus lanes within the existing carriageway in Manor Royal * Improvements to the footways and cycleways in Manor Royal * Upgrading the existing road surfaces in Manor Royal * Improvements to the Manor Royal / London Road junction and the Fleming Way / Faraday Road junction Future construction work will include: (work started - May 05) * Widening of the carriageway on Haslett Avenue East to provide dedicated bus lanes * Replacing roadway with bus guideway on Haslett Avenue East on the eastbound approach to Three Bridges Road. * A new traffic light controlled junction on the western arm of the Squareabout. ==Promoters== The Fastway project is promoted by a Public-Private Partnership. The consortium includes West Sussex, Surrey, Crawley, Reigate and Banstead, BAA plc, British Airways, Metrobus (bus operator in south-east England) and the Go-Ahead Group. There is also additional support from the UK Department for Transport. Funding is being raised both from the public and private elements of the consortium. The projected cost is £32 million, with £7.5 million from West Sussex County Council. The final cost of the scheme is still unknown. The bus operator, Metrobus, has stated that passenger figures are up 10%, with 35% of all journeys being to and from Gatwick. One million passengers were carried in the first seven months of operation. It has also indicated that delays have been reduced due to the new bus lanes and bus gate. ==Opposition== The Fastway project has sharply divided opinion in the local area. Concern has focussed on a number of areas: * Design of new bus lanes, notably with regards to safety. * Low use of guided bus sections. * Impact during construction. * Schedule - Phase 1 completed four months late, Phase 2 already overrun. * Loss of green areas, cycle lanes, road space and pedestrian routes to bus lanes. ==External links== *[http://www.fastway.info Official Site] *[http://www.westsussex.gov.uk/content/roads-and-transport/roadworks-information/location/ Partial list of roadworks in Crawley] *[http://www.transportbriefing.co.uk/briefings/fastwaybriefing.htm TransportBriefing.co.uk report on Crawley Fastway] Covers just the actual journey, no details on the system. *[http://corporateresponsibility.go-ahead.com/case.asp?id=253 Go-Ahead group page on Fastway] *[http://www.metrobus.co.uk/fastway/ Metrobus Fastway timetables] Busways Bus transport in the United Kingdom
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This article has had several additions by IP addresses used only for those additions e.g. * 84.66.43.80 * 81.76.105.104 * 194.203.128.61 Some of these may have violated the Neutral point of view rule, or at least should be looked at for bias. There may be a number of parties who do not wish to see this project represented honestly fo whatever reason. It is certainly a cause of controvesy and resentment in the Crawley area. I too may be biased since I live in Crawley and have witnessed first hand the work required for this scheme. Please take the above into account when editing the article, and try to keep it Neutral point of view. User:Akadruid 08:15, 26 Jun 2004 (UTC) ---- Akadruid, using such emotive language (in particular excessive use of the word 'destruction'), is clearly on a anti-Fastway rant - and I can't see how he can seriously criticize for me for not being neutral. Whenever I've made edits where I've tried to add a positive remark, I usually include a negative remark as well. Any reader would think there was no reason at all for the Fastway scheme except to annoy residents and local businesses. Whenever any large scale scheme is constructed, there is always disruption and it is naive to think otherwise. P.S. I live in Crawley and have also been affected by construction works, and I don't live on the main Fastway sections, although I have benefitted from the Haslett Avenue bus lane which doesn't directly serve Fastway. I have no vested interest in Fastway, other than an occassional user. :OK, that's pretty reasonable. I doubt I have a NPOV since I also live in Crawley. The scheme is having a very negative effect on me and those around me, and we can never use any of it since it doesn't cover our area. The sheer waste of it frustrates me - I'm used to local authorites wasting thousands on trivia such as silk flags and rusty statues but spending so many millions and disrupting so many for a service that will benifit very few, even if successful, seems to me to be a criminal abuse of trust. :Given my position, I'll leave the article alone for now to allow people to reestablish a NPOV. User:Akadruid ---- I want to agree that this page appears to have serious NPOV issues. I live in Horsham, the neighbouring town to Crawley. From my perspective I have not come across any great controversy other than would be expected for a large scheme of this nature. The opening paragraph: :"Crawley Fastway is a controversial project to provide a new guided bus service linking some areas of Crawley in southern England with the nearby Gatwick Airport. The project has required the destruction of large sections of the existing road infrastructure, and has run into heavy local opposition." would be better phrased along the lines of: :"Crawley Fastway is a guided bus service linking suburbs of Crawley with the nearby Gatwick Airport. The service utilises a mixture of on-road, bus-lane and dedicated guided bus sections." It may be boring, but it is NPOV. User:Scolebourne 15:05, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC) ::The intro sentance needs some work. I don't know whether your proposal fits though, since it makes it sound as if the project is complete, or nearly so. 'guided bus service' is inaccurate, since it only uses a few yards of guideway. ::I don't know that there is anyone who considers it uncontroversial though. The bus drivers hate it, the people who use have nothing good to say about it, CBC go to some lengths to distance themselves from it, business groups have condemned it and other road users naturally despise it. The only people I know who have openly supported it are the 'Go-Ahead' group, who own the bus company and partly funded it, and the West Sussex 'Transport Planning Group' or whatever they call themselves down in Chichester. ::Anyhow, I don't really think I can make it NPOV, so someone else Be Bold and edit please! User_talk:Akadruid)">User:Akadruid|akaDruid (User talk:Akadruid) 09:23, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC) --- Well, the request was to be bold, so I was. The page is basically completely rewritten. I have tried to take a fact based approach, and exclude all emotive language and issues. If you feel that something is factually incorrect, please comment, or if you feel something is materially missed out, thus resulting in a bias, please say. I am hoping that with a few more edits we can get this NPOV resolved. (I need to research how NPOV is officially 'resolved'). I also started a process of unifying the page names of the Crawley suburbs. --User:Scolebourne 00:44, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC) ---- I think the article may now have its NPOV marking removed. I will do that in a week or so if no one objects. Also, I propose to rename this article 'Fastway'. Currently, 'Fastway' links to 'Crawley Fastway'. I believe this to be appropriate because: 'Fastway' is the name used in nearly all promotion and discussion about the project even outside the local area - the term 'Crawley Fastway' has only been used here in Wikipedia and; Fastway is planned to serve Horley, which is considered to be distinct from Crawley. Some sources use the term 'Gatwick Fastway' which could have a link to 'Fastway'. -User:Radamfi 13:16, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC) ---- Well, Akadruid hasn't learned his lesson - after swearing off editing the page he has ruined the hard work done by others by his continuing ranting. -User:Radamfi 15:14, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC) :Thank you for looking at the article, and I accept your point, although I feel the language is too strong. I'm all for making a good article, so I'll keep off the page, and limit myself to adding comments here. Would it be rude to ask if you are an advocate of bus systems like these? Your edit history implies an interest in the area. :Perhaps someone would like to look at the history of the article and re-add some of the objections to the system in a NPOV fashion. They have been published in the media, and I believe they are commonly held objections. :If it helps anyone to make a judgement on my edits, my involvement is this: I am a Crawley resident, but outside of area served by this project. I witness first hand the problems and costs for those who don't use the service, which I understand to be over 95% of the local population. As you can imagine, it is somewhat painful to watch this, given the cost to us tax payers and the only real benefit is going to the bus company. :Anyway, that's the end of my little rant, hope I haven't caused offense, and I hope someone can help create an article that conveys the views of the bus company, the council, and the local residents. I'll go and work on User:Akadruid#Recent Edits! User:Akadruid 11:29, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
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