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mortgagepants t1_j8nmzii wrote

Reply to comment by kkirchhoff in Do you want a Roosevelt Blvd Subway? Tell the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission ASAP! by markskull

this is the exact thing "bus rapid transit" would be for. you make the middle of Oregon Ave into a bus only lane, and articulated buses that stop every half mile.

it will never happen because "fuck you that's why" but it isn't some impossible solution; it exists all over the world and even some cities in the US.
here is a wikipedia on it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_rapid_transit

here are the best in class in the US:https://www.gtt.com/top-6-brt-routes-2019/

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courageous_liquid t1_j8o7zsp wrote

SEPTA and the city desperately do not want to call anything they're doing BRT.

There's a bus on the boulevard that operates like BRT but they were INSANELY adamant about not calling it that.

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leninluvr t1_j8om4dp wrote

It’s a direct/express bus, not BRT. Needs dedicated right of way to be BRT

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courageous_liquid t1_j8omijc wrote

Yeah, it's BRT-light, it doesn't have some elements required for full 'BRT' designation like pre-paying fares and shit too.

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tkdnw t1_j8oo6ph wrote

It doesn't have any brt elements except wider stop spacing afaik

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courageous_liquid t1_j8oq5o2 wrote

level boarding, branding, improved shelters, transit signal priority, only high-ridership stops, etc.

again, there's a lot more that probably could be done (all-door boarding, prepay) but I think you can call it BRT-light without too much pain

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