One of those days when I just want to bail on NUMTOT because of horrible takes
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>calling guided buses and trackless trolleys innovative it's not the 1970s (or the 1880s) anymore you morons; BRT may constitute good transit but it hardly constitutes new thinking
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also >hating on light rail because Americans don't have a good track record on it guys....if you want to hate things that Americans don't do very well, then maybe transit advocacy isn't for you
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also also >hating LRT bc Americans suck at it >but supporting BRTpic.twitter.com/w1EtC7CeK7
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Pretty much the only thing we hype harder and suck at more than LRT in this country is BRT, please don't let yourself get memed on like this
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Replying to @380kmh
I may be wrong but I get the impression that on both fronts the reason we suck so bad is everything is about cutting corners. I mean, half the time BRT is suggested as a corner-cut replacement for light rail, which leads to even more corners being cut and it just being a 1/2
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bus lane with frequent service if that, and most of the time it gets reduced to a bus with limited stops and better bus shelters with no other improvements (see the Charlotte Sprinter) 2/2
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Replying to @m_nwwn1
100%, and you can see these young advocates going squarely in the direction of perpetuating this tendency--SAD!
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Replying to @380kmh
The only place I can kinda understand BRT (or at least a busway of some sort) as a suggestion are the few areas where there's seemingly more need to funnel multiple smaller bus routes than it is to replace them, but I can't really think of many situations where that's the case
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Replying to @m_nwwn1
there are more applications than that...BRT *is* a viable transit mode when fully implemented--but fully implementing it means establishing a dedicated ROW and proper stations, which Americans are loathe to do even for LRT
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