Clearing the roads * South Africa - Johanesburg: A new public bus transport system
Johannesburg,South Africa -Financial Mail (subscription), by Carol Paton -20 Oct 21007: -- It's 7 am rush hour in Soweto. Streams of passengers board the long, articulated buses that swing out into the empty middle lane of the Soweto highway, passing hundreds of cars and taxis caught in the gridlock. The journey into Sandton or the Johannesburg city centre is predictable, comfortable and safe... This is the vision for the Bus Rapid Transit - BRT - which will start running in Johannesburg by 2009. Taxi owners have a choice: swap your taxis for buses or be squeezed out... Buses to replace taxis on major routes... The shining example of BRT is Bogota, Colombia, where taxi wars raged and thuggery and corruption ruled the roads. Now the city has one of the best public transport systems in the world... (Photo right - Bogota buses - The basis for Jo'burg's future system - Photo left: Jo'burg commuter buses - Out with the old) Labels: bus rapid transit - BRT
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