>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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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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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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Replying to @380kmh
True. Is there anywhere in the U.S. (or perhaps more realistically, Canada or Mexico) that you think has come the closest to doing BRT right? (I suppose I'll ask the same question about LRT too)
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Cleveland is the go-to for successful BRT in the USA, Portland and Denver (from what I hear) are good models for LRT
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