RAPID TRANSIT BUSES * USA - As gas prices plunge, DART ridership shows signs of a slowdown
Plano,TX,USA -The Dallas Morning News, by THEODORE KIM -November 22, 2008: -- Gone are the columns of illegally parked cars near Dallas Area Rapid Transit stations, the teeming rail platforms and the sardine-can train cars at dawn... With gasoline prices dropping below $2 per gallon in places, some bus and train commuters who forsook their automobiles during the summer appear to have returned to the road... To be sure, many who switched are still riding. Passengers continue to flock to buses and rail in record numbers nationwide, adding to full trains and park-and-ride lots from Seattle to South Florida, transit officials say... And DART’s board of directors next month is expected to earmark more than $3 million to build additional parking at rail stations in Plano and Richardson...* Rail-like bus service proposed at AC Transit
Walnut Creek,CA,USA -The Contra Costa Times, by Denis Cuff -21 Nov 2008: -- Call it a bus service that acts like a railway: spacious vehicles arriving every four or five minutes to zip riders along on lanes reserved exclusively for them... The payoff: more riders, less smog and global warming gases, and an overhaul of the image of public transit buses, from slow and creaky to speedy and cool... The Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District is rolling toward key decisions in the next two years on its plan to build a $234 million bus rapid transit system along a 17-mile route to connect downtown Berkeley, Oakland and San Leandro... But bus rapid transit, known as BRT for short, still faces hurdles as the board gears up to make final decisions on the project and its precise route in 2010... (Photo Courtesy AC Transit - This artist's rendition provided by AC Transit shows how bus rapid transit would function. Buses would run on bus-only lanes in the center of the street. Passengers would buy tickets from self-service machines on raised platforms for quick loading of buses) Labels: bus rapid transit - BRT
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