As for safety, better warning systems may increase safety more than any engineering feat.
Yes, because creating significantly more permeable surface area is an engineering feat we don't want engage with.
Water management can be done, everywhere. And doing engineering (competently) is way cheaper than taking the damage. However, it does require taking unpopular decisions. And the decisions are often unpopular because they're contrasted with doing nothing, instead of with all the flooding damage.
11th Street Bridge will be really neat. I'm looking forward to seeing that space activated. But it's not going to do much to cause displacement. No one lives next to the bridge on either side (Navy facilities on the west side and a park and highways on the east side). And because it's over water, the bridge isn't next to older building stock to be re-developed (like the High Line or the 606).
If the really nice park along the Anacostia hasn't led to mass displacement, then neither will the bridge.
What will lead to displacement is increasing demand for housing and not building enough to meet that demand.
Now imagine if we had express lanes on 495 so we could have express buses from Tysons to Bethesda.
We have. From the WW bridge to Tysons. And we'll get them from Tysons further. Just wait 1/3 of the time it takes to build the SV or PU lines.
Back in Holland, there have been buses going over the emergency lane forever during traffic jams. They even have a >traffic sign for it. And the exits have to be a bit redesigned. They even used to advertise on the buses: "Drive by the traffic jam with us" in some punny slogan. Sadly I can't find an image of that.
Be more frequent transit instead of the wider road. please move fast instead of waiting for years. If the bus / light rail are comfortable and more frequent, there will be fewer cars.
why the orange line is not extended to the airport?
Agree- McDuffie has no right to hold elected office in DC. Since September 2021, there have been 3 drive-by and gang shootings in his Ward DURING recess by the Dwight Mosely Playground which 3 public charter schools use. The most recent was today at 11:30 am. Even after repeated emails, calls, tweets, nothing to improve public safety or provide more funding for youth programs to prevent kids from going into gangs. It makes me sick to my stomach.
Anyone else notice "Washington Business Journal" is kind of a fishy news source? They seem to have a strong bias towards negative articles about the DC economy, and they have very little engagement with readers on social media or anywhere else I can find. I tried looking into who they are and hit a dead end. They're part of an umbrella organization called "The Business Journals" that has websites for a lot of US cities.
I have trouble reading their articles, because of the paywall, but when I try to find other sources reporting the same things, it can be a challenge and it's often just another source citing them.
I have a half written post about them. No one at the Nats will discuss them with me. In the end I think they’re empty because the Nats like them empty.
As to Tysons to Bethesda, there’s plenty of extra shoulder from ALB to River Road.
Minneapolis has bus-on-shoulder but for safety reasons, the buses are restricted to going no more than 15 mph faster than the general lanes. Also, I don't think the express buses would get much ridership unless you had dedicated lanes all the way from Tysons to Old Georgetown Rd and ideally down Old Gtown to the Bethesda metro.
Type in your library card number (It’s on back of the card)You will get DC WBJ articles for free. You wont be able to read WBJ articles from any other region.
How to read Washington Business Journal articles for free if you have a DC library card.
I found this out recently:
Goto
www.dclibrary.org/wbjClick the "Visit" buttonType in your library card number (It's on back of the card)You will get DC WBJ articles for free. You wont be able to read WBJ articles from any other region.
It's working great so far in the Alexandria-Arlington corridor, especially right now with the Metro shutdown. Service every 12 minutes, nice clean buses, and convenient stops.
We only don't have this because everything here has to be overthought and overbuilt. For example, compare the absurdly massive silver line stations to the much more heavily used Chicago blue line stations. Or any DC underground metro station to any Paris metro station. As to Tysons to Bethesda, there's plenty of extra shoulder from ALB to River Road. As for the bridge itself, Istanbul's gold standard Metrobus BRT manages to carry one million riders a day (you read that right) with peak headways of under a minute even though the busses have to merge into general traffic to cross the Bosophorus Bridge. Give me a work crew, some paint, and some cones and I'll get you an express bus lane from Tysons to Bethesda in a month. Give it to regional government and you won't get it until you replace their company cars and security details with bus passes.
The garage is barely an issue. I'd say the bigger concern is that what appears to be the primary loading dock for the stadium is on First. If DC Water moved their gate from First to N Place, there's nothing "on" First below N Place. You'd keep the first third or so for the garage and the dock doors and the rest is almost unneeded. The street doesn't really lead anywhere after that.
I've always wondered about those spaces. Even if you just did pop ups something in those spaces would do well. The businesses the next block up are busy and the Salt Line/Dacha do a brisk business, there's plenty of people there all the time even out of season.
If it weren't for the garage the whole part of first street around there would be great to either try and pedestrianize or make a woonerf. Especially if DC water decides to put some of those warehouses to better use.
Maybe if they had rented those spaces they could have offered Juan Soto more money.
So the Nats Park developers pulled the standard “instead of proffers we’ll build some retail that will generate tax revenue but won’t build it because it’s not profitable” ploy.
So the Nats Park developers pulled the standard "instead of proffers we'll build some retail that will generate tax revenue but won't build it because it's not profitable" ploy.
Excellent article. NVTA exemplifies regional planning and governance, warts and all. I give kudos to Chair Randall for being frank about the challenges with retrofitting a county that has allowed itself to be overrun by poorly planned development. For better or worse, NVTA is going to have to work out solutions and investments that deliver something for all its locality and agency representatives. Fairfax County has veto power on the Board and can turn this ship either in a better direction or an even worse one.
The obvious inference one draws from the hand-wringing of this editorial is that DC needs rank choice voting.
That's the obvious inference? LOL
How does rank choice voting produce new candidates who will put the city back on track? Because no one on the current ballot will do anything but continue this death spiral, regardless of how you rank them.
The city needs new candidates with new ideas and new policies, not electoral trickery.
Do you really think it is okay to treat people like pawns and kick them out of their homes because you think a different building should be built where they now live? Worse is your assumption that is it okay to force them to pay more for housing once you "kick them out." It's very easy to play around with other people's lives and other people's money, isn't it?
I know it’s difficult to imagine a solution for such outlying, car-dependent areas, but I hope it won’t be impossible.
But if it is impossible...oh well, who cares about them, right? If there's a practical and financially feasible solution, please propose it. Otherwise, your point that building both transit and highways is contradictory is bunk.
The plan's split is $45B for transit and $29B for roads. That's more than fair to transit users considering that the vast majority of tax revenue is coming from people who primarily use roads.
Why is the former owner selling? Some additional information here would add more to this piece. Is the former owner selling because they were unable to increase rents to cover increasing maintenance costs? Did anyone reach out to them for comment?
The Route 28 Bypass has a funding problem. The project is going to much more than the $300M allocated. Since they skipped the NEPA process, they can't get federal funding to fill the gap. Unless they toll the roadway, I am not sure if it gets built.
I thought that Columbia Pike couldn’t have dedicated High Occupancy transportation lanes
Well, VDOT did not want to make transit dedicated lanes for the streetcar. So fat change, this BRT line is gonna get it.
However, the streetcar didn't happen because the County Board shit its pants after Vihstadt got elected promising much better bus transportation instead of the streetcar. Cowards.
Check the zoning closer there is a maximum amount of units per acre and it's a small lot, my back of the napkin math says that you actually can't put a bigger building on that lot, much less one 4x time the size. The purple line isn't relevant - this area is not actually close to the purple line route and already closer to the Takoma Metro then it is to any future purple line stop so you can scrap that point entirely. Not exactly sure how you want to try and justify that you were willing to allow more people into the same neighborhood without waiting for a new transit line for a large building but somehow we gotta wait for it for the single family homes next door. So in either scenario you have to go through the same zoning ordinance changes so your whole premise here is bunk and comes down to little more than rooting for evictions. In one scenario we kick dozens of people to the curb with no compensation or choice in order to squeeze a taller building (and I don't know where you're going to put 4x the parking, which is legally required, in addition) where there's already density, in the other we are giving middle class people a ton of money, a profit on their house, to leave if they choose, to add density where there isn't any. It also takes time to evict dozens of tenants, tear down an existing structure and build a new one that will be more costly to build and more expensive long term to maintain. A quick look at the map shows the single family lots in the neighborhood are almost as big as the lot in question - if a developer got two of them next to each other, not really that implausible, they could build an even larger building, or even with one at a time they could convert to small walk ups of maybe 8 units a piece, which I think is actually much more feasible than making some strange super thin needle like 16 story building with a ton of underground parking that's a longish walk from transit and dreaming a developer can get a profit out of that. The wages comment is rather detached from reality, housing prices have been soaring past inflation for decades, and while wages have been going up somewhat very recently it's still less than inflation and only after decades of stagnation with inflation, so wages have effectively been going down forever and now essentially went down a little less and that somehow has any meaning in a county where the cheapest house anywhere is half a million dollars? Not at all relevant since no one who's making 15/hr who used to make 12 is somehow going to buy a half million dollar house.
“BRT uses extra-large buses on physically-separated lanes to provide the same quality of service as Metro rail for a small fraction of the cost.”BRT is pretty much always inferior to rail in comfort, speed, and capacity. Additionally, “BRT creep” is real (watering down BRT to the point where it isn't BRT anymore) and probably to be expected here. Watch the operators run buses in mixed traffic and brand it as "BRT" as if the name itself is some sort of talisman that allows it to provide high-quality transit service.
McDuffie's has been a non entity on the Council. Bonds does a better jobs than he does.
And although the editorial doesn't mention it, his stupidity on the attorney general race is staggering. Trump level dumb. He helped pass a bill on requiring the AG to be an active lawyer and didn't understand he didn't qualify for the job, and whined all the way up through the courts about it.
You’re right, I did think you’d endorse McLaughlin since even in this “endorsement” you outlined how his vision and details align with urbanism and GGW goals.
But more so, what the hell? Where is the justification for McDuffie? Why do you support continued mediocrity in our city.
So you are encouraging the creation of a food desert by getting rid of Giant ?
No. We have a model that is used all over the city, in which apartments are built over a supermarket. That should have been the model used instead of what exists now, a chunk of car-dependent suburban development in the middle of a city.
And you want to get rid of the main Post Office in DC.
No. I want to move the processing facility and its massive parking lot outside of the city or at least away from a public transit and residential corridor. Another post office, likely multi-floor and integrated with other buildings, should replace it.
A bridge or elevated road from where to where ?
Well, if the street grid is properly redesigned, it would connect to a reconnected street anywhere south of Brentwood or W St. It could start as a gradual incline and like the MBT or the High Line, it could integrate into the neighborhood before it crosses the tracks into Ivy City. Stairs and elevators can provide additional access points. On the Ivy City side, it could connect to a street or end in one of the underutilized lots.
Instead of decking things over why not put everything underground and rebuild the natural landscape as decking over will create a huge slope at some point that is not passable unless you plan to raise a lot of land like Chicago did in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s
You are right, it would have to be dig and deck, which if feasible, would be wonderful, but it would still cost billions to do and may be a long time before economically feasible. I think a bridge coupled with a total rezoning of Brentwood would be worth the money and a boon to the city and its residents.
"Bus Rapid Transit has a tiny tiny sweet spot where it works, but in most instances it’s either an utter failure (no ridership) or, in the rare cases it takes off, completely overwhelmed and inadequate in short order."
I am shocked and saddened that GGWash would endorse McDuffie. Climate Matters comment was spot on that McDuffie has consisently stood in the way of getting climate progressive folks on the Public Service Commission that has the most to say about how our utilities confront climate change. McDuffie's ex-staffers have diligently embedded themselves in the staff of our utilities, widening his scope of influence on utility policy and their scope of influence on him through their pay-to-play campaign contributions.
I've always thought that they should cut off the eastern end of the D4 and combine it with the now-truncated E2 and have a single bus route running between Union Station and Fort Totten, with Ivy right in the middle of the route instead of a terminus on either one.
I thought that Columbia Pike couldn't have dedicated High Occupancy transportation lanes, that's why the streetcar failed. Or have they come to senses, and realized "yes, you can take away two lanes, there will be enough reduction in traffic to merit it".
I agree, some of these would hit the limit of riders on BRT pretty quickly, and would have to be rebuilt as rail..
the Virginia side used to be a traditional rotary-style traffic circle, but it was reconfigured to its current form at some point… my guess is the 1970s, but maybe it was later to coincide with the construction of I-66.
Both guesses are right. The "circle" (it was really an oval) had the south curves removed in the 1970's (though you could still see the outline of it) and then the whole thing was gone when I-66 was built.
So you are encouraging the creation of a food desert by getting rid of Giant ?
And you want to get rid of the main Post Office in DC. That will cause more harm than good with all the People that have PO Boxes there and redirecting mail every as the Brentwood Post Office serves everything from Noma, H Street, Ivy City, Capitol Hill, Edgewood, Brentwood, Langdon etc or
So where will all those people go to get their mail ? basically everything between the Arboretum and Dunbar High School gets there mail from Brentwood
Decking over the rails. Hudson yards in is no comparison for one thing it was mostly underground this would be above ground from Eckington to Brentwood.
A bridge or elevated road from where to where ? There used to be a bridge that crossed the rail yard I think it was on T Street.
Instead of decking things over why not put everything underground and rebuild the natural landscape as decking over will create a huge slope at some point that is not passable unless you plan to raise a lot of land like Chicago did in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s
If you are doing all that why not rebuild the Rhode Island Ave station is could surely use a complete remodel.
That’s a totally subjective opinion stated as fact
Which part of it "would immediately be an eye-catching addition to the DC skyline" is subjective.
One could argue, I suppose, that it wouldn't be immediate, because it would take time to construct it. immediate is sort of a relative term. Is that your beef?
Or do you believe it would not catch people's eyes? I feel pretty confident it would.
Or is that it won't be an addition to the DC Skyline? Because that's a fact.
Another year, another decade-high murder rate, another decade-high pedestrian death rate, totally failed schools (19% of DC's students are at grade level in math, 31% in reading), etc., etc., etc.
The city keeps getting worse because you keep voting for the same people. At this point, it's an electorate failure, not a leadership failure - this outcome is your fault, and you're getting exactly what you deserve.
I saw her speak recently and I thought she was a great advocate for safer streets and she specifically called out the problems with aggressive, reckless driving and talked solutions - the need for slower speeds and better enforcement. IIRC she talked about being in the faction that wants to bring back points so that repeat reckless drivers can't just pay fees and keep their license in good standing.
Besides that issue, the thing that impressed me most was her follow through with legislation - some lawmakers might get a bill passed but they don't make sure it has adequate funding or gets properly implemented or fixed when issues arise. With paid family leave, she was a leader in not just getting that symbolically passed, but substantively getting it operational, funding it, and improving how it performed and delivered for people.
"Bus Rapid Transit" is one of those terms like "clean coal" that promises something that it can't deliver. Let's make up some signs that say: BRT = BS
Bus Rapid Transit has a tiny tiny sweet spot where it works, but in most instances it's either an utter failure (no ridership) or, in the rare cases it takes off, completely overwhelmed and inadequate in short order.
As for safety, better warning systems may increase safety more than any engineering feat.
Yes, because creating significantly more permeable surface area is an engineering feat we don't want engage with.
Water management can be done, everywhere. And doing engineering (competently) is way cheaper than taking the damage. However, it does require taking unpopular decisions. And the decisions are often unpopular because they're contrasted with doing nothing, instead of with all the flooding damage.But we don't have them on the Maryland side, thanks to opposition from GGWash and others
11th Street Bridge will be really neat. I'm looking forward to seeing that space activated. But it's not going to do much to cause displacement. No one lives next to the bridge on either side (Navy facilities on the west side and a park and highways on the east side). And because it's over water, the bridge isn't next to older building stock to be re-developed (like the High Line or the 606).
If the really nice park along the Anacostia hasn't led to mass displacement, then neither will the bridge.
What will lead to displacement is increasing demand for housing and not building enough to meet that demand.
Now imagine if we had express lanes on 495 so we could have express buses from Tysons to Bethesda.
We have. From the WW bridge to Tysons. And we'll get them from Tysons further. Just wait 1/3 of the time it takes to build the SV or PU lines.
Back in Holland, there have been buses going over the emergency lane forever during traffic jams. They even have a >traffic sign for it. And the exits have to be a bit redesigned. They even used to advertise on the buses: "Drive by the traffic jam with us" in some punny slogan. Sadly I can't find an image of that.
Be more frequent transit instead of the wider road. please move fast instead of waiting for years. If the bus / light rail are comfortable and more frequent, there will be fewer cars.
why the orange line is not extended to the airport?
Me too; it's annoying when GGWash links to them.
Agree- McDuffie has no right to hold elected office in DC. Since September 2021, there have been 3 drive-by and gang shootings in his Ward DURING recess by the Dwight Mosely Playground which 3 public charter schools use. The most recent was today at 11:30 am. Even after repeated emails, calls, tweets, nothing to improve public safety or provide more funding for youth programs to prevent kids from going into gangs. It makes me sick to my stomach.
Anyone else notice "Washington Business Journal" is kind of a fishy news source? They seem to have a strong bias towards negative articles about the DC economy, and they have very little engagement with readers on social media or anywhere else I can find. I tried looking into who they are and hit a dead end. They're part of an umbrella organization called "The Business Journals" that has websites for a lot of US cities.
I have trouble reading their articles, because of the paywall, but when I try to find other sources reporting the same things, it can be a challenge and it's often just another source citing them.
@fiscal moderate
What is causing some schools to be bad and how can that be fixed?
The students. This is obvious, and if you have to ask, you should be looking considering why you can't see it.
Minneapolis has bus-on-shoulder but for safety reasons, the buses are restricted to going no more than 15 mph faster than the general lanes. Also, I don't think the express buses would get much ridership unless you had dedicated lanes all the way from Tysons to Old Georgetown Rd and ideally down Old Gtown to the Bethesda metro.
How to read Washington Business Journal articles for free if you have a DC library card.
I found this out recently:
Goto
www.dclibrary.org/wbj
Click the “Visit” button
Type in your library card number (It’s on back of the card)You will get DC WBJ articles for free. You wont be able to read WBJ articles from any other region.
Hope this helps.
How to read Washington Business Journal articles for free if you have a DC library card.
I found this out recently:
Goto
www.dclibrary.org/wbjClick the "Visit" buttonType in your library card number (It's on back of the card)You will get DC WBJ articles for free. You wont be able to read WBJ articles from any other region.
Hope this helps.
Re: 66 Express Buses
Now imagine if we had express lanes on 495 so we could have express buses from Tysons to Bethesda.
I've always wondered about those spaces. Even if you just did pop ups something in those spaces would do well. The businesses the next block up are busy and the Salt Line/Dacha do a brisk business, there's plenty of people there all the time even out of season.
If it weren't for the garage the whole part of first street around there would be great to either try and pedestrianize or make a woonerf. Especially if DC water decides to put some of those warehouses to better use.
Maybe if they had rented those spaces they could have offered Juan Soto more money.
Nationals Park developers = Events DC?
@Jim Titus
The obvious inference one draws from the hand-wringing of this editorial is that DC needs rank choice voting.
That's the obvious inference? LOL
How does rank choice voting produce new candidates who will put the city back on track? Because no one on the current ballot will do anything but continue this death spiral, regardless of how you rank them.
The city needs new candidates with new ideas and new policies, not electoral trickery.
The city needs more than a one party.
"Kick them out" of their homes?
Do you really think it is okay to treat people like pawns and kick them out of their homes because you think a different building should be built where they now live? Worse is your assumption that is it okay to force them to pay more for housing once you "kick them out." It's very easy to play around with other people's lives and other people's money, isn't it?But if it is impossible...oh well, who cares about them, right? If there's a practical and financially feasible solution, please propose it. Otherwise, your point that building both transit and highways is contradictory is bunk.
The plan's split is $45B for transit and $29B for roads. That's more than fair to transit users considering that the vast majority of tax revenue is coming from people who primarily use roads.
I thought that Columbia Pike couldn’t have dedicated High Occupancy transportation lanes
Well, VDOT did not want to make transit dedicated lanes for the streetcar. So fat change, this BRT line is gonna get it.
However, the streetcar didn't happen because the County Board shit its pants after Vihstadt got elected promising much better bus transportation instead of the streetcar. Cowards.
“BRT uses extra-large buses on physically-separated lanes to provide the same quality of service as Metro rail for a small fraction of the cost.”BRT is pretty much always inferior to rail in comfort, speed, and capacity. Additionally, “BRT creep” is real (watering down BRT to the point where it isn't BRT anymore) and probably to be expected here. Watch the operators run buses in mixed traffic and brand it as "BRT" as if the name itself is some sort of talisman that allows it to provide high-quality transit service.
McDuffie's has been a non entity on the Council. Bonds does a better jobs than he does.
And although the editorial doesn't mention it, his stupidity on the attorney general race is staggering. Trump level dumb. He helped pass a bill on requiring the AG to be an active lawyer and didn't understand he didn't qualify for the job, and whined all the way up through the courts about it.
Hard no on McDuffie.
You’re right, I did think you’d endorse McLaughlin since even in this “endorsement” you outlined how his vision and details align with urbanism and GGW goals.
But more so, what the hell? Where is the justification for McDuffie? Why do you support continued mediocrity in our city.
@kk
No. We have a model that is used all over the city, in which apartments are built over a supermarket. That should have been the model used instead of what exists now, a chunk of car-dependent suburban development in the middle of a city.
No. I want to move the processing facility and its massive parking lot outside of the city or at least away from a public transit and residential corridor. Another post office, likely multi-floor and integrated with other buildings, should replace it.
Well, if the street grid is properly redesigned, it would connect to a reconnected street anywhere south of Brentwood or W St. It could start as a gradual incline and like the MBT or the High Line, it could integrate into the neighborhood before it crosses the tracks into Ivy City. Stairs and elevators can provide additional access points. On the Ivy City side, it could connect to a street or end in one of the underutilized lots.
You are right, it would have to be dig and deck, which if feasible, would be wonderful, but it would still cost billions to do and may be a long time before economically feasible. I think a bridge coupled with a total rezoning of Brentwood would be worth the money and a boon to the city and its residents.
^Perfectly stated.
A lot of work has been done for the BRT along Richmond Highway, with plans moving forward to open late 2020s.
Are you guys saying this BRT is not going to be successful? Wow, a waste of time and money that would be.
I thought that Columbia Pike couldn't have dedicated High Occupancy transportation lanes, that's why the streetcar failed. Or have they come to senses, and realized "yes, you can take away two lanes, there will be enough reduction in traffic to merit it".
I agree, some of these would hit the limit of riders on BRT pretty quickly, and would have to be rebuilt as rail..
Both guesses are right. The "circle" (it was really an oval) had the south curves removed in the 1970's (though you could still see the outline of it) and then the whole thing was gone when I-66 was built.
@cmc
So you are encouraging the creation of a food desert by getting rid of Giant ?
And you want to get rid of the main Post Office in DC. That will cause more harm than good with all the People that have PO Boxes there and redirecting mail every as the Brentwood Post Office serves everything from Noma, H Street, Ivy City, Capitol Hill, Edgewood, Brentwood, Langdon etc or
So where will all those people go to get their mail ? basically everything between the Arboretum and Dunbar High School gets there mail from Brentwood
Decking over the rails. Hudson yards in is no comparison for one thing it was mostly underground this would be above ground from Eckington to Brentwood.
A bridge or elevated road from where to where ? There used to be a bridge that crossed the rail yard I think it was on T Street.
Instead of decking things over why not put everything underground and rebuild the natural landscape as decking over will create a huge slope at some point that is not passable unless you plan to raise a lot of land like Chicago did in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s
If you are doing all that why not rebuild the Rhode Island Ave station is could surely use a complete remodel.
You should really read the feasibility study. www.georgetownrosslyngondola.com/feas...
Which part of it "would immediately be an eye-catching addition to the DC skyline" is subjective.
One could argue, I suppose, that it wouldn't be immediate, because it would take time to construct it. immediate is sort of a relative term. Is that your beef?
Or do you believe it would not catch people's eyes? I feel pretty confident it would.
Or is that it won't be an addition to the DC Skyline? Because that's a fact.
Another year, another decade-high murder rate, another decade-high pedestrian death rate, totally failed schools (19% of DC's students are at grade level in math, 31% in reading), etc., etc., etc.
The city keeps getting worse because you keep voting for the same people. At this point, it's an electorate failure, not a leadership failure - this outcome is your fault, and you're getting exactly what you deserve.I saw her speak recently and I thought she was a great advocate for safer streets and she specifically called out the problems with aggressive, reckless driving and talked solutions - the need for slower speeds and better enforcement. IIRC she talked about being in the faction that wants to bring back points so that repeat reckless drivers can't just pay fees and keep their license in good standing.
Besides that issue, the thing that impressed me most was her follow through with legislation - some lawmakers might get a bill passed but they don't make sure it has adequate funding or gets properly implemented or fixed when issues arise. With paid family leave, she was a leader in not just getting that symbolically passed, but substantively getting it operational, funding it, and improving how it performed and delivered for people.
"Bus Rapid Transit" is one of those terms like "clean coal" that promises something that it can't deliver. Let's make up some signs that say: BRT = BS
Bus Rapid Transit has a tiny tiny sweet spot where it works, but in most instances it's either an utter failure (no ridership) or, in the rare cases it takes off, completely overwhelmed and inadequate in short order.