BRT * China - Cities Find Bus-Only Lanes
As Alternative to Cars and Subways
Beijing,China -ClimateWire, by SAQIB RAHIM/The New York Times (USA) -July 16, 2010: ... In the past two years, China has also become the world's fastest-growing market for high-speed city buses... In February, the southern city of Guangzhou rolled out China's latest effort, a 14-mile stretch of a main road striped with bus-only lanes down the middle, the approach is called bus rapid transit, or BRT... 
About a dozen Chinese cities have working BRT systems today, and dozens more are in the works... Om Prakash Agarwal, a senior urban transport specialist at the World Bank, said most cities looking to fight traffic are considering BRT first... Nevertheless, he said, BRT doesn't suit the most crowded areas. If a city needs to move more than 20,000 people per hour in a given stretch, the World Bank will recommend a conventional metro train...Labels: bus rapid transit - BRT
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