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Five reasons why BRT may have advantages over rail
Once more into the bus/rail breech, my friends. In various comments and articles, I’ve enumerated various advantages that bus rapid transit has over equivalent-service rail in some circumstances; this post is simply a collection of these. It doesn’t constitute an endorsement of bus over rail for any specific project or system, hence the word “may”…
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KBOO Bike Show on Vacation…
Tomorrow KBOO will rebroadcast this episode…
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All-door Boarding and Fare Evasion
Jarrett Walker has a post over on Human Transit about all-door boarding being added to buses in San Francisco. He makes the point that the perception of fare evasion is often much worse than the reality. I’ve experienced that many times over the years in discussions of streetcar fare policy. The honor system means that…
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Pros and Cons of Center- vs. Curb-Running Bus Rapid Transit
The City of Boston has created a pretty nice one-sheeter laying out the advantages, disadvantages, and design principles of running exclusive bus lanes in the center of a road vs. along the curb. As the Portland region considers BRT for future rapid transit lines (Powell/Division, Clackamas to Washington Square, and the SW Corridor are all…
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Fast and Reliable Light Rail in the Netherlands: How they do it, and lessons for Portland
Zef Wagner is currently in the Netherlands taking a class on sustainable transportation. He will be posting periodically about the Dutch transit system and what lessons we could apply in Portland and elsewhere in the US. One of the first things I noticed about transit after arriving in the Netherlands was how incredibly fast the…