List of guided busways and BRT systems in the United Kingdom

Belfast

Ipswich

Runcorn

Redditch

  ELT

Fastrack  

Leeds

 Bradford

Crawley

Tyne & Wear

Luton

Cambs

SE Hants

Leigh   

Sheffield

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UK busways

This is a list of the past, present, planned or abandoned guided bus systems or bus rapid transit schemes in the United Kingdom, including segregated busways. Not included are bus priority schemes, bus lanes or local authority bus company quality contracts that do not involve guidance, significant segregation from the public highway or other bus rapid transit features. The UK does not have any implementations or proposals for rubber tyred trams such as Translohr or Bombardier Guided Light Transit.

Leeds, unguided, operated by First Leeds from 2007-2012, after the end of FTR services the buses were rebranded Hyperlink and redeployed alongside Yorks on the 72 route between Leeds and Bradford before being replaced by conventional double deckers in 2016.

York Between Acomb and University of York, from 2006-2012 operated by First York.

Swansea (Wales), unguided and operated by First Cymru branded Swansea Metro. Services started in September 2009 from Morriston Hospital to Singleton Hospital via Morriston, Swansea railway station, the Kingsway, Swansea bus station, the Civic Centre and Swansea University. Withdrawn in August 2015 and replaced with standard single deck buses, later in 2015 the two way bus lane was replaced with a conventional one way system in response to high-profile accidents, the 'bendy buses' were returned to service in 2016 as a student shuttle between Swansea University campuses.

• Birmingham. Tracline 65 was an upgraded route with the first guided busway in the UK. There was a 600-metre section of guideway in Erdington. It opened in 1984 and closed in 1987.^[18]
• Edinburgh, Edinburgh Fastlink operated by Lothian Buses. Originally called WEBS, the West Edinburgh Bus Scheme, a group of bus priority improvements that included a 1 mile (1.5 km) section of guided busway.
  • Stenhouse - Broomhouse, opened in December 2004, designed to be used for Line 2 of the Edinburgh Tram Network.^[19] In January 2009 it closed to enable conversion to tramway. The two bus services using the guideway were re-routed.^[20]

• Colchester Rapid Transit: In January 2023, Essex County Council announced a rapid transit system for Colchester, set to be operational in 2025 or 2026. The planned route will connect from the A12 Park and ride (including the Colchester Community Stadium and Northern Gateway development nearby), to the University of Essex and new garden community due to be built near Wivenhoe. The system will also see the construction of a corridor along Northern Approach, which has been in planning since 2006. The corridor construction, which started in August 2023, has notably caused damage to properties next to the route. ^[21]
• Dover Fastrack: A new BRT route in Dover similar to the Fastrack scheme in Gravesend, being built to connect new housing developments in Whitfield to Dover. It will be Kent’s first zero-emission bus service. It is planned to open in Autumn 2023.
• West Midlands Sprint. A limited stop service with dedicated bus lanes, with a total of 7 routes to be operational by 2026.^[22]
  • Birmingham - Solihull - Birmingham Airport
  • Birmingham - Perry Barr - Walsall
  • Birmingham - Langley - Sutton Coldfield
  • Birmingham - Bearwood - Dudley
  • Birmingham - Bearwood - Halesowen
  • Birmingham - Selly Oak - Northfield - Longbridge
  • Hall Green - Solihull - Birmingham Airport - Birmingham Interchange

• Cambridge There are two busway projects being planned by the GCP (Greater Cambridge Partnership).
  • Cambourne - Cambridge busway connecting Cambourne 12 km west of Cambridge to the city.
  • CSET (Cambridge South East Transport), connecting Babraham to the existing southern busway via the Biomedical Campus.
• Coventry Sprint. A proposed application of the FTR (bus) over a 19 miles (30 km) route, 34% segregated^[23]
  • Nuneaton - Coventry - Kenilworth, route consultation ongoing
• Glasgow, Clyde Fastlink, along the north bank of the River Clyde, with segregated running for the majority of its length outside the city centre.^[24] It has been approved by Scottish ministers and is expected to be ready for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.^[25]
  • Glasgow City Centre - Glasgow Harbour with the majority of the route segregated.^[26]
• London
  • West London Transit, being considered following the abandonment of plans for the West London Tram in August 2007
• Cardiff
  • South Wales Metro includes plans to install BRT systems along the main roads in Cardiff.
• Hertfordshire
  • In 2015, Hertfordshire County Council began evaluating a scheme to convert the single-track Abbey line, which runs from Watford Junction to St Albans Abbey, into a busway.^[27]

• Leeds, following refusal of funding for the proposed Leeds Supertram, a replacement system was proposed by the government,^[28] which included a three-line 12-mile (20 km) trolleybus network.^[29] 38% would run on guideways or on bus lanes.^[30] The scheme received a negative assessment from the inspector at a public inquiry, and approval was refused in May 2016.
• Bath, Somerset, the Department of Transport approved funding with 1 mile (1.4 km) of busway,^[31] but this has been abandoned.^[32]
• London
  • Millennium Transit, a segregated busway intended to link the Millennium Dome with Charlton and Greenwich railway stations, part of which was to include a 1 mile (1.3 km) section of electronic guidance.^{[citation needed]} Intended to be operational when the Dome opened, the electronic guidance technology was abandoned following concerns that neither the system nor the driver was in a position to avoid sudden obstacles.^[33] The busway was later replaced by a dual carriageway due to safety concerns.^[34]
  • Greenwich Waterfront Transit, planned for completion by 2011, abandoned in 2008 due to cancellation of Thames Gateway Bridge.
• Stoke-on-Trent Streetcar, primarily to link the railway station to the city centre, but would have also linked the rest of the city's six towns and neighbouring Newcastle-under-Lyme and Kidsgrove. Major destinations included both universities, the hospital and both major football stadia.

• Rapid transit in the United Kingdom
• List of bus rapid transit systems
• List of bus operating companies

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