November 2, 2013 at 12:56 am
#799218
Julie
Member
Since this now appears to be a transit thread: Wakeflood, here’s my big concern with BRT: It’s easier to get a BRT project started than fixed-rail solutions, but it’s also easier, once it’s started, to scale it back, as expenses and objections rise, to something that is no longer BRT. This is exactly what happened with “Rapid” Ride. (I realize it was never originally conceived as true BRT, but the actual implementation is scaled back from the project as originally presented.) Furthermore, the very flexibility of BRT is not only a strength but also a possibly fatal weakness–it can be dissolved very easily; fixed-rail solutions are not impossible to un-do (West Seattle being an excellent example), but it takes more effort.