Shift: London's Rapid Transit Initiative

[ssiguy]

The bus-only center lanes can work depensing on the service itself. It's no an automatic to higher ridership as York Region has proved with it's very large and expensive BRT system which has resulted in LOWER ridership.

The BRT as it currently stands is dead and frankly I'm glad. What I'm not glad about is London not improving it's transit service or getting needed prov/fed infrastructure funding. Remember many Londoners would actually see their commute time INCREASE with the current proposal as outer areas will now have to transfer onto the BRT. A larger BRT-lite system woulb be fast, efficient, and be much more expansive and serve many more destinations and tens of thousands of more residents, transfer free. It moves traffic much faster as well due to fewer stops and much shorter dwell times.

No demolitions, no lanes removals, no large scale disruptive road construction, no transfer, longer routes, more people served, more destinations, serves outer areas including the airport, easily expandable, comfortable, reliable, increases car traffic speeds, all of it qualifies for fed/prov infrastructure funding but costs less so less of a demand from London taxpayers themselves, and no business opposition as it runs on current routes and stops. All this and it's politically palatable as well.

BTW...……….I sent off a letter to BRT planning chair at the SHIFT office detailing all of this. Have you guys done the same or probably more effectively gone to one of the media outlets like TV or especially the LFP and presented much a scheme? We can't collectively bitch if we don't act and time is of the essence.