Posts tagged Curitiba
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Can the US make BRT work as well as in Latin America?
In the DC area, bus rapid transit is sometimes seen as the choice of people who don’t really want transit to succeed. Democrat Martin O’Malley and local environmentalists lobbied for light rail on the Purple Line, for example, while Republican Bob Ehrlich’s push for BRT was largely seen as an effort to “obfuscate, alter, study and delay”… Keep reading…
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Lessons from a South American Bus Rapid Transit system
Curitiba, a city of 1.8 million people, is the capital of the state of Paraná in Brazil. In late December, I visited Curitiba at my own expense and was briefed on its Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system, one of the world’s first and most highly-regarded. Because Montgomery County is studying BRT as an option for its residents, I wanted to find out how it is working… Keep reading…