vt2022cam t1_j7z81tp wrote on February 10, 2023 at 1:41 PM

Reply to comment by IntelligentCicada363 in Bus trips on north Mass Ave faster, more consistent with bus lanes by IntelligentCicada363

Well, you need about a quarter of the stops for an express bus, and you run them more during rush hours. The CT 1 fails because they didn’t advertise it, they treated as a separate bus on running the same route, they ran 1 bus for every 10 regular #1 buses, and it stopped at Central Sq, not Harvard.

The CT2 is successful and still running, but ran a separate route connecting multiple subway lines.

vhalros t1_j7zgjcy wrote on February 10, 2023 at 2:45 PM

I just can't get over the fact that we had funding all lined up and everything to extend to the Red Line all the way to Arlington, then blocked it. And forty years later we are talking about maybe doing an express bus route.