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
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