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Instead, the senate of Hamburg has decided to implement a network of bus priority traffic lights. That's all nice, but it doesn't quite work. It's not giving buses faster or longer green phases, it's basically a placebo for buses, nothing else.
Also, pic related are (hopefully) all bus corridors that have at least twelve buses per hour during peak service. You can clearly see that many of those routes follow the planned tram network. Among the most used corridors in all of Hamburg are
>The University (where Rotherbaum is) with 30 buses per hour
>Route 6 which goes from the city center via Uhlenhorst to the Stadtpark (city park), with up to 18 buses per hour
>Route 3 between Bahrenfeld and the city center, which pretty much runs 12 buses per hour between 5-21h, mon-sat
>Route 5 up to Lokstedt, one half of the University line, which runs 18 buses per hour during peak, and 12 buses per hour during off-peak times
>Barmbek, Steilshoop and Bramfeld are densely populated areas, and therefore have multiple bus routes run at least every five minutes during rush hour.
>Jenfeld is a dense low-income neighborhood and as such sees up to a total of 54 buses per hour aiming for one of the three nearest metro or railway stations.
>The corridor between Wandsbek and Horn is one of the most congested, as it's the fastest connection between two high-density areas, while only served by regular buses rather than bendy buses.
The senate had a huge chance to turn Hamburg into a transport paradise, with most high-density areas being connected to rail transport. Instead, we got a failed bus priority project, tons of more CO2 emissions by buses and the new expensive U5 metro line? Well the first train will not run before 2027, and complaints are en masse.
The first tram line, barring delays, would have been completed since 2016.
