Bus Rapid Transit

[fryar]

Also, since development tends to cluster around light rail stops, its ridership is actually reinforcing. Businesses locate near the stops, which increases ridership, which makes the stations more attractive to businesses. More businesses are set up and it increases ridership more. This makes the system a lot more efficient and user friendly, since over time, more and more of people's destinations are concentrated along the route.

Well, this is surely a rehashing of many years' worth of back and forth on DY, but: What you say is true. FWIW, you could have at least some semi-permanence by making adjustments to the street, as in the picture shown above.

With both alternatives, light rail and BRT, it is critical to put all of the pieces into place, and not forget to connect the friggin' component that makes it work.

Clearly, nobody who a) made the call to send some crews to those lights and add some new components or b) who worked on those installations and understood the bigger picture of what they were doing actually took an hour to ride the dang bus and see if everything was working in concert.

Who don't we all just perfunctorily perform our assigned functions, collect our paychecks, and go home. Gnnnaaaaaargh! I'm starting a thread on why job performance measuring metrics are meaningless. Because I'm mad, and I'm not gonna take it anymore!

No, but seriously, here we are spinning our wheels on BRT merits, and our reference point is sleeping on the job. What idiots.