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A Port Authority board committee today approved a $1 million study of developing rapid bus service between Downtown and Oakland. Rapid bus has been likened to a light-rail system with much lower development costs. Specially designed buses operate between above-ground stations that are farther apart than typical bus stops... Read On 

The Colombian capital of Bogota has been praised for more than a decade concerning its dramatic transformation, which centered around the TransMilenio bus rapid transit (BRT) system, ushered in by former mayor Enrique Peñalosa... Read On 

Construction of the Inland area's first rapid transit bus route -- meant to ferry hundreds of workers and students along a key corridor in San Bernardino and Loma Linda -- will begin in the fall, officials said... Read On 

Cleveland doesn't often get recognition for being a leader in innovative transportation - but maybe it should. A recent report from the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) awarded Cleveland the highest rating of any American BRT system... Read On 

The opening of a new tram (streetcar) line is usually the occasion for lots of hype and celebration about trams. But Reims, France is using the opening day of a new tram to pitch a newly integrated network, the "Réseau Bus-Tram." The term clearly invites us to stop thinking of buses and trams as separate things, and forming attachments to one or the other... Read On 

When it's done properly, bus rapid transit -- known as BRT -- ranks among the cheapest and quickest ways to cut CO2 emissions from transportation. But it is not often done properly -- least of all in the United States, according to a new report. ... Read On 

Local buses tend to use the slow lane, which in North America means the rightmost lane; this is how they access the curb to pick up passengers. New York's painted bus lanes on First and Second Avenues are to the right, with the buses slower than the cars both in perception and in actual practice... Read On