Bus rapid transit system could boost metro Detroit, experts say

[Wesley Mouch]

<snip>...$200 million and 25 years of planning and construction to save three minutes. Yeah, that's worth it.

You're misrepresented the article.

The article is much more upbeat than your summary.

You found one article on one line on shared right-of-way that two years ago needed some work to get it running as designed, and that means BRT sucks?

Here're the statistics from the article:

Old bus: 47 minutes
New BRT as of 7/2010 [[westbound): 44 minutes [[6% decrease)
New BRT as of 7/2010 [[eastbound): 36 minutes [[23% decrease)
New BRT as expect when fully implemented: 33 minutes [[30% decrease)

So the system two years ago was running between 6% and 23% faster than the old bus.

And it will eventually run 30% faster.

That sounds like great success to me for BRT.

"It is much nicer and ridership is up"

Brad Chase, Chairman, RTA Citizens Advisory Board