Rapid Transit

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Here we go again. This has been studied to death. If done properly and without political interference, it will come to LRT is better and cheaper to operate than BRT. And we will have wasted more time and money.

The problem is that most people, if not all of the BRT supporters, think that BRT means getting a whole bunch of long buses and let them run willy nilly around the city. If you don't like them on this street, you just move them. They don't get that BRT needs dedicated lanes also. I have talked to many BRT supporters who have basically told me this. They just don’t understand BRT and they are not interested in researching what LRT and BRT is all about.

The other anti LRT supporters are people who do not want anything on any road that may add even 30 second to their drive. I had a conversation with a gentleman who would have buses removed from his favorite route across the city because they sometime slow down his drive.

At first when LRT was proposed, I thought it was a crazy idea to put a train across the city even though I travel a lot and have ridden many LRT and street car system across the world. I was against it. I did my own research and I have become a fan of LRT (and even a fan of a limited return to some street car service.10 American cities are reintroducing street cars)