Rail replacement bus service

[2] Substitution of rail services by buses can be unpopular and subject to criticism and so the term bustitution is often used pejoratively.

[10] NSW TrainLink, Transwa and V/Line all introduced extensive networks in New South Wales, Western Australia and Victoria in the 1970s and the 1980s that replaced regional trains.

[11] Substitute bus transport (Czech: náhradní autobusová doprava) is governed by the Road Traffic Act (111/1994 Coll.

where upon the suspension of rail services between Rosslare Europort and Waterford in 2010, Bus Éireann route 370 was introduced.

However, the bus takes considerably longer than the train journey and fails to serve Waterford railway station.

Rail-replacement bus services occurred on a large scale after the dismantling of the street railway systems of many cities in North America in the mid-20th century.

[29][30] Replacement of existing rail services with buses after World War II is one of the largest reasons that so few US cities have rapid transit systems.

The operator SMRT and the rival SBS Transit did not activate bus bridging but made all buses free islandwide because of the sheer scale of the disruptions.

[32][33] The Land Transport Authority made travel free available for any bus services passing MRT stations that were affected during the train disruptions, and during a massive disruption affecting at least two lines, bus travel islandwide was made free.