Sentences with phrase «bus rapid transit system»
Last week, I wrote about bus rapid transit systems — essentially above - ground subway systems — as one method of achieving this.
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That new type of transit system is now called «Bus Rapid Transit», and both developing and industrialized cities around the world are now building bus rapid transit systems of their own.
With the goal of improving public transit in the city, Buenos Aires could have its first bus rapid transit system, also referred to as «Metrobus», in May 2009.
When financing of sustainable transport projects increases sustantially, a huge number of projects could be funded as bycicle lanes, but also bus rapid transit systems are not incredibly expensive.
Some municipal election candidates are lining up against proposed bus rapid transit system (not light rail, as many had hoped).
Kampala is still a low density city and could already greatly benefit from cheaper and more easily implementable projects such as bus lanes and eventually a bus rapid transit system.
Proposed federal budget cuts are endangering plans to expand the Capital District Transportation Authority's bus rapid transit system, according to CDTA CEO Carm Basile.
Curran said she plans to seek state funds for a bus rapid transit system to connect the Mineola Long Island Rail Road station to the Hub.
Bus rapid transit systems are thriving in China, but can they thwart a growing love affair with polluting cars?
The editors cite as evidence the influence AFP had recently in convincing the Tennessee legislature to block a bus rapid transit system project in Nashville.
In growing numbers of cities, good jobs are being generated by the emergence of bus rapid transit systems.
The report finds that bus rapid transit systems can carry up to two million passengers a day at less than 15 per cent of the costs of a metro.
And bus rapid transit systems can be built more quickly [by many years].»
Today, more than 160 cities have bus rapid transit system that speed commuters past gridlocked single - passenger drivers.