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Streetcars, MAX Trains and Buses – Three Modes – One System
click image for full size view The streetcar system, promoted as a development tool, is supposed to be a local circulator with frequent stops and yet it will run without a stop for two-thirds of mile, across the Broadway Bridge between the Pearl District and the Eliot Neighborhood. On the other hand, light rail is…
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Eugene EmX in Action
From the New Flyer website, we find a video highlighting the EmX route in Eugene – which uses New Flyer’s low-floor articulated model – as well as a brochure page touting the advantages of bus rapid transit. Eugene’s application of BRT includes dedicated lanes, large station platforms, and as mentioned is a low-floor bus that…
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Double Decking
A guest post from regular commenter Garlynn Woodsong: Recently, we have discussed the testing in San Francisco of a double-decker bus, which will then move on to Las Vegas, NV to go into full service as a part of the fleet serving their Deuce line. Tri-Met is currently running its fleet on B5 biodiesel, and…
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Sorting Out Fareless Square
We’ve had plenty of opinion about fareless square, and/or it’s curtailment. I’d like to try to back up a little bit and take this out of the realm of opinion, and get into a more structured analysis. So I’m going to pose this question: If you were asked to conduct an objective analysis of costs/benefits…
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Where to go with Bus Technology
A number of things have been happening with the development of bus transit technology available in the United States in the past decade. We’ve seen: Widespread deployment of Diesel-electric hybrid buses in cities such as New York and Seattle British-style double-decker buses on the Las Vegas Strip and now being evaluated in San Francisco Special…