Caption here It’s been about two months since the C and D Rapid Ride Lines began operations in Seattle and barring a few bumps in the road, things have been running pretty smoothly if not always speedily. But Seattle isn’t the only city implementing and talking about Bus Rapid Transit aka BRT – it’s going on all around the US. Take a quick spin around recent BRT focused stories online.
We’ll start out close to home and then go farther afield.
- RapidRide buses not so fast in Ballard, speedy in West Seattle (Seattle Times)
- Metro riders give Rapid Ride service mixed reviews (KIRO TV)
- Why RapidRide Isn’t Rapid (Publicola @ Seattle Met)
- West Seattle: Thanks for sharing your stories this morning 11/27/12 (Metro Matters Blog)
- Top three things we heard about the C Line (and what we did about them) (Metro Matters Blog)
- Tech update: RapidRide real-time arrival signs – West Seattle, Ballard and lower Queen Anne (Metro Matters Blog)
- RapidRide C Line, 7 weeks in: Metro’s questionnaire for you (West Seattle Blog)
- Metro adds bus trips to make RapidRide live up to its name (KPLU)
- RapidRide C & D: No Schedule, No OneBusAway (Seattle Transit Blog)
- The RapidRide Punchlist (Seattle Transit Blog)
- Disappointment with RapidRide and the Budget Dodge (Seattle Transit Blog)
- Op-Ed: RapidRide will be Popular with Riders (Seattle Transit Blog)
- The opportunities and dangers of incomplete bus rapid transit (Human Transit)
- Dissent of the week: praise for new york city’s bus rapid transit (Human Transit)
- Metro Transit plans two meetings on RapidRide F line that includes Tukwila (Tukwila Reporter)
- Might as well Jump! the CTA debuts a stepping-stone to bus rapid transit (Grid Chicago)
- Convert existing lanes to BRT, say Montgomery planners (Greater Greater Washington)
- Without Bypassing Chokepoints, BRT Risks Becoming “Symbolic Transit” (Streetsblog)
- NYU Report: NYC’s Exclusive Busways Shouldn’t Be for Emergencies Only (Streetsblog)
- Why New York’s Transit System Fared So Well During Sandy (Atlantic Cities)
- Research study: New LRT projects beat BRT (Railway Age)
- Using BRT as a Transit Band-Aid (Atlantic Cities)
- Fully automatic signals on bus rapid transit corridor (Times of India)
Many travel options = flexibility
Image from the Rudin Center’s Report on Hurricane Sandy’s Impact on NYC
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And don’t forget, Metro’s E and F lines are scheduled to come online September 28, 2013!