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Commuter from Seattle here. BRT is an improvement here (I'm on it now) but vastly inferior to rail. Downtown to UW is 10 minutes on rail. My similar distanced B
by electricEmu 10y ago
Commuter from Seattle here. BRT is an improvement here (I'm on it now) but vastly inferior to rail. Downtown to UW is 10 minutes on rail. My similar distanced BRT commute is 25-60 minutes.
Grade separated rail makes a gigantic difference and moves leagues more humans faster than BRT could dream of.
Unless BRT gets dedicated lanes it's no better than any other bus, except it stops is fewer places more often.
- ZeroGravitas 10y agoI thought, and wikipedia agrees, that BRT implies dedicated lanes, for at least the majority of the route. There's lots of little improvements that could be made to bus transport, for similar money to trains, I think a big part of it is just wanting to be responsible for big construction, whether to get kickbacks or to just a more straightforward ego boost.