Coachway interchange

The Milton Keynes Coachway was the first to be called a coachway and has been in operation since 1989.[http://nationalexpress.fotopic.net/c572383.html First coaches from the new coachway, April 1989]{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}The coachway first appears on the '1990 Official City Map of Milton Keynes' (pub. Milton Keynes Development Corporation in late 1989).

Alan Storkey, a transport economist, proposed a motorway based coach system based on Coachway interchanges to the House of Commons Transport Select Committee in May 2006{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmtran/1317/1317am04.htm|title=Transport Committee Inquiry into Bus Services across the UK|publisher=Parliament|accessdate=2010-01-30}} and was promoted by George Monbiot in 2006.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/dec/05/comment.politics|title=I'm all for putting more vehicles on our roads. As long as they're coaches|work=The Guardian|date=1996-12-06|accessdate=2010-01-30 | location=London | first=George | last=Monbiot}}

The South East England regional assembly gave support to the High Wycombe Coachway in December 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.google.com/search?q=high+wycombe+coachway|title=Planning application for a coachway park and ride, business and hotel development|publisher=Wycombe District Council|date=2009-12-24|accessdate=2010-01-29}}

In January 2010, the South East England regional transport board criticised the plans published by the development authority for the 2012 Summer Olympics for not providing plans of a credible long term coach network saying 'The ODA has been working on an extensive network of coach services... [but] the lack of reference to this work [in the plan] is both intriguing and at the same time concerning.'{{cite web|url=http://www.transportxtra.com/magazines/local_transport_today/news/?ID=18702|title=ODA plays down South East’s fears about Olympic legacy coach network|work=Local Transport Today|date=2010-01-22|accessdate=2010-01-30}}

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• Milton Keynes Coachway (near M1 Junction 14), in operation since 1989, is the UK's second busiest coach station.After Victoria Coach Station{{cite web |url=http://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/transport/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=64972 |title=Building the new Milton Keynes Coach Station |publisher=Milton Keynes Council |accessdate=2010-01-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101130135141/http://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/transport/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=64972 |archivedate=2010-11-30 }} Its parking facility doubles as the local Park and Ride.
• Meadowhall Interchange (near M1 Junction 34) serves Sheffield.
• The Hard Interchange (at the end of the M275) serves Portsmouth.
• The Ferrytoll park and ride in south Fife is an important intermediate stop for many coach services between Edinburgh, Fife and the rest of Scotland.
• High Wycombe Coachway opened near Junction 4 of the M40 in January 2016.{{cite web|url=http://www.bucksfreepress.co.uk/highwycombe/14208741.New_coach_services_to_start_in_High_Wycombe_on_Monday/|title=Opening Report|publisher=Bucks Free Press|date=2016-01-15|accessdate=2016-01-24}}

Other coachway interchanges are less formal. The Reading Coachway on the M4 motorway is more like a bus stop in a supermarket car park.

• Coach transport in the United Kingdom
• Victoria Coach Station in central London is the UK's busiest and had been in operation since 1932.
• Bus rapid transit (A general article about bus rapid transport - similar issues for coach rapid transport)

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Category:Coach transport in the United Kingdom

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