I think it's pretty great, especially as far as buses are concerned! It has lower capacity limits than trains can, but that's...
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...not an issue until ridership reaches a saturation point--and by then, you can use the same ROW to build rail! Good plan
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Replying to @380kmh
I don't what the ridership saturation point would be, today it transports 1.511.743 passengers a day.
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Replying to @j_l3m
saturation point deals with passengers per direction per hour on a given line--a figure that will vary throughout the network
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for BRT, I understand the upper limit is about 40,000 per direction per hour
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Replying to @380kmh
40.000 per direction per hour seems insane, bur, considering you've reached that, trains don't become way cheaper?
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Replying to @j_l3m
trains don't get cheaper to build just because a corridor is busy, but building costs pay back faster--more important, tho...
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...is that you can't manage MORE than 40,000 per direction per hour without using trains (which can do over 100,000 per dir per hour)
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