Recent Streetsblog USA posts about Bus Rapid Transit

Meet the Rural Region That Opted for VelociBuses Over Highway Expansion

By Angie Schmitt | Feb 14, 2013 | 5 Comments

The four sparsely populated mountain counties make up the Roaring Fork Valley extend over roughly 50 miles on Colorado’s Western Slope. About 32,000 people are interspersed throughout the valley in small towns like Basalt, Carbondale, and Glenwood Springs, but the local economy revolves around the nearby resort town of Aspen. This, clearly, is challenging terrain […]

How Much Bang Are Cities Getting From Federal BRT Bucks?

By Tanya Snyder and Ben Fried | Jul 31, 2012 | 13 Comments

How substantial are the benefits delivered by federal investment in bus rapid transit projects, and how can the feds help local governments build better bus improvements? A new report from the non-partisan Government Accountability Office [PDF] looks at the results of BRT projects that have been completed in 20 cities since 2005, when SAFETEA-LU expanded federal […]

Will Rahm Emanuel Show America What BRT Can Do?

By Ben Schulman | Dec 19, 2011 | 4 Comments

With impressive urgency, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has spent his first months in office retooling and reconfiguring how the “City That Works” works. Emanuel’s energy is evident in changes from beat-cop deployment to the push for a longer school day, but perhaps the mayor’s most tangible efforts can be seen in his ambitious transportation agenda. […]

New Plans Would Make Detroit the Nation’s Run-Away BRT Leader

By Angie Schmitt | Dec 16, 2011 | 3 Comments

As disappointing as it’s been to see Detroit’s light rail plans being squashed, it’s been pretty exciting watching what has been taking shape in its place. The Motor City’s plans to shift some $500 million from a 9-mile light rail system to bus rapid transit system could go a long way toward remedying the crushing […]

Who Killed Transit on the New Tappan Zee? Feds and NY State DOT Won’t Say.

By Noah Kazis | Oct 24, 2011 | No Comments

Call it the mystery of the missing transit. One of New York state’s biggest transit projects, in the works for nearly a decade, was canceled overnight and no one will explain why, or even claim responsibility for the decision. Two weeks ago, each of the four alternatives for replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge, which spans […]

American BRT: A Rapid Bus Network Expands in Las Vegas

By Dani Simons | Jul 11, 2011 | 6 Comments

Last month the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy released its report, “Recapturing Global Leadership in Bus Rapid Transit” [PDF], which proposed a LEED-like rating system for bus rapid transit projects and laid out a strategy for American cities to build systems as good as the world’s best BRT. While more than 20 American bus […]

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