Salt Lake City: 30 Year Transportation Plan
May 27, 2011|Salt Lake Tribune
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Two new freeways, several new streetcars and TRAX lines, and hundreds of miles of new "bus rapid transit" - where express buses have their own highway lanes - are included in the official transportation plan for the next 30 years adopted Thursday by the Wasatch Front Regional Council... Read On
Blogosphere: Is BRT the Chosen Way?
May 26, 2011|Steve Munro
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The Globe and Mail included a full page article by Jonathan Yazer on Victoria day on the subject of Bus Rapid Transit. [In the interest of full disclosure, I was interviewed for but not quoted in the article... Read On
Blogosphere: Silly Argument of BRT vs Rail
May 25, 2011|Transport Politic
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As if operating in parallel, Toronto's Globe and Mail and The Wall Street Journal each published articles last week describing the merits of bus rapid transit, which each newspaper described as the future of urban transportation... Read On
Blogosphere: Transitways Can Go on Grass
May 24, 2011|Greater Greater Washington
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Transitways don't have to be ugly. They don't even have to be paved. There are many examples around the world of grass-track transitways for light rail or BRT, and a lot of local interest in using them here... Read On
Blogosphere: Bus Corridors Increasingly Popular
May 24, 2011|Stephen Rees
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The Globe and Mail gets on the BRT. Mostly, being Toronto's national newspaper, it's about what is happening at the centre of the known universe. But the longish article is quite a good summary of the whys and wherefores of BRT... Read On
Can TOD Typologies Work in Places that Run Buses? Part 3 of 6
May 23, 2011
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While there are a lot of typologies created around rapid transit networks that only include rail in this country, that doesn't mean we can't plan land uses around frequent bus service. In fact, in this video below CTOD Director Sam Zimbabwe discusses (go ahead and click!, it's less than a minute of your time) the need to focus not on the transit technology but the transit service frequency when thinking about how to change land uses.
National: BRT Takes Off
May 23, 2011|Wall Street Journal
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One of the hottest trends in urban mass transit is-the bus. Not your old-fashioned bus lines. Cities all over the world are switching to bus rapid transit, or BRT, a modern transit system that combines the flexibility of buses with the speed, comfort and reliability of rail... Read On
Blogosphere: Committee Recommends Wilshire BRT
May 19, 2011|The Source
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A 7.7-mile Wilshire Boulevard peak hour bus plane project was endorsed on Wednesday afternoon by the Metro Board of Directors' planning committee by a vote of 5 to 0. It is the same route recommended by Metro staff... Read On
Commentary: Let Community Decide Bus and Rail
May 18, 2011|Tampa Tribune
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The board of directors of Hillsborough Area Regional Transit (HART) will shortly be faced with deciding whether to complete an alternatives analysis required by the federal government. The process is intended to determine which transportation mode - rail, bus rapid transit or expanded bus - best meets the region's future transportation needs... Read On
Blogosphere: 7 Transpo Improvements to Agree On
May 17, 2011|Streetsblog DC
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The Reason Foundation, a free-market think tank, is not always a transportation reformer's best friend. Its scholars gave Florida Gov. Rick Scott inaccurate advice he then used to justify killing high-speed rail in his state. They want to prevent the gas tax from funding "peripheral" programs like transit and active transportation... Read On
