BRT * Colombia - Bogota's Transmilenio
Bogota,Colombia -Public Polity.wordpress.com (NY,USA), by Sam Clifford (Queensland,Brisbane,Australia) -January 29, 2008: -- Streetfilms gives the world this video about Bogotá’s Bus Rapid Transit network. It is essentially a network of busways which have been built by reclaiming a lane or two on each side of the central strip of the major highways and replacing it with a busway station (like if the SE Busway existed in the middle of the Pacific Motorway) where the floor of the bus is in line with the floor of the platform. The buses are articulated (banana buses) and tickets are pre-paid just like at a train station. I’ve seen numbers before that reduce the average time for boarding from 20 seconds per passenger to something like 8 seconds when this sort of ticketing system is in place.
Other things to note from the video:
* free feeder buses
* free bike parking at busway stations
* bikeway network to the bus stations
* segregated bus lanes between stations and in some sections of the CBD streets
* much cheaper than rail
* 1.3 million passengers per day
(See Video)
Labels: BRT transmilenio
posted by Unknown @ 10:29 AM
1 Comments:
TransMilenio is inspiring indeed, and the alighting speed is easily less than a second per passenger becuase people pay as they go through the turnstiles to enter the station, so the getting on is like walking into a metro car, No steps, and the gap is so tiny so you don't even need to look down.
TransMilenio blew my mind - it felt much more like metro than what is called BRT locally.
There is a short video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA4IR7PvO6I that shows the inside of the stations.
You may also find this document interesting: http://www.itdp.org/index.php/microsite/brt_planning_guide/ The annex that has system comparisons among BRT system of the world is fascinating and I think that the physical design section gets into the alighting times.
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