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Well the reason light rail and subways are so good isn't because they're on rails, but because they get their own track. If you put a bus on its own street, su
by nulltype 10y ago
Well the reason light rail and subways are so good isn't because they're on rails, but because they get their own track. If you put a bus on its own street, suddenly they're not as bad anymore: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_rapid_transit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_rapid_transit
- rsync 10y agoI agree that BRT (which I have a lot of experience with)[1][2][3] does make things a bit better. However, the successful BRT I have seen is always in very specialized circumstances, while the proposals I have seen for BRT in (for instance) San Francisco have been so full of weird compromises and bizarre edge cases that I am not optimistic they will make anything better. [1] Hop/Skip/Jump buses in Boulder [2] 16th street mall shuttle in Denver [3] "VelociRFTA" BRT in Aspen/Basalt/Glenwood
- nulltype 10y agoDid they change the Skip? I used to take that and it was just a normal bus in the normal street as far as I recall.
- mikeash 10y agoThey're also good because of the commitment involved. You can build around a light rail or a subway stop, safe in the knowledge that it will still be there in ten or twenty years. You can't build around a bus route like that. Ironically, the high expense and lack of flexibility are features, not problems.
- SilasX 10y agoYet SF still manages to mess that up. The Geary/O'Farrell corridor gets its own lane for the buses, but the "rapid" ones stop every three blocks.