BRT * USA - Dixie studies bus-rapid transit
St. George,UT,USA -The Deseret News, by Laura Hancock -May 14, 2010: -- Bus-rapid transit, buses that have dedicated lanes of traffic that allow them to travel faster than regular traffic, may eventually connect communities in Utah's Dixie... The Dixie Metropolitan Planning Organization has hired AECom in Salt Lake City for $130,000 for a feasibility study, which is currently under way... The idea is for BRT to "carry riders from the downtown St. George area out to Hurricane and back or potentially to carry passengers from the downtown St. George area to the airport," said Myron Lee, transportation planning manager for Dixie MPO... The soonest BRT would be built in St. George would be in 2020 or 2025, Lee said... Suntran has four routes that make trips for the equivalent of 320,000 individual trips a year... Suntran has experienced 35 percent annual growth since 2003, Lee said... According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Washington County had 48,560 residents in 1990; 90,354 residents in 2000... In 2009, the Census estimated there were 137,473 residents... (Photo from beautyofstgeorge.blogspot.com: Downtown St. George, Utah)Labels: bus rapid transit - BRT
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