Bus Rapid Transist * USA - AC Transit promotes new transport system
The Orange Line, as it is known, uses natural-gas powered buses along an exclusive busway, with limited stops and passengers paying before they board to speed loading and unloading
CA,USA -The Contra Costa Times, by Erik N. Nelson -4 June 2007: -- It may be difficult for progressive trailblazing Bay Area leaders to stomach, but they're learning a lesson from Los Angeles about public transportation... That lesson is called bus rapid transit and it's on the lips of transportation officials from the marble halls of Washington to the dirt-paved slums of South America. The place it seems to work phenomenally well is through the sun-soaked autopolis of L.A.'s San Fernando Valley... Bus rapid transit is unique among transportation alternatives... Priorities often divide decision-makers along ideological lines... Liberals push for mass transit, conservatives seek highway funding; advocates for the poor agitate for more bus service for those who can't afford cars, whereas environmentalists lobby for expensive new railways to coax SUV owners off suburban freeways... BRT seems to have united some of those competing interests...
Labels: bus rapid transit - BRT
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