Recent Streetsblog LA posts about BRT

Transportation Committee Agenda: Bike Corralls, Bus Rapid Transit, and Measure R

By Damien Newton | Apr 12, 2010 | 2 Comments

This week’s Transportation Committee hearing doesn’t have all of the agenda items that we hoped to see, but does have an interesting one concerning use of Measure R funds to widen a road in the San Fernando Valley. Along with a report on the Wilshire Bus-Only program and one directing LADOT and City Planning to […]

Chicago’s New BRT Push Will Be Linked to “Livability”

By Sarah Goodyear | Apr 6, 2010 | No Comments

Bogotá’s Transmilenio BRT. Could Chicago get something like this? (Photo: the mikebot via Flickr) Today on the Streetsblog Network, we hear about new plans for Bus Rapid Transit from the blog of the Metropolitan Planning Council (the MPC is "an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan organization…[that] serves communities and residents by developing, promoting and implementing solutions for […]

Streetsblog Responds to City Watch Columnists Attack on Bus-Only Lanes

By Dana Gabbard | Oct 14, 2009 | 12 Comments

Photo: LA Wad/Flickr (editor’s note: A couple of weeks ago Joe Linton wrote an update on Los Angeles’ support for the Wilshire Bus-Only Lane. A City Watch Columnist, Harold Katz, responded with an article attacking the project.) I’d like to begin by stating I have nothing but admiration for activist Harold Katz’s nearly 40 years […]

Council Approves Moving Forward With Wilshire Bus Lanes

By Joe Linton | Sep 22, 2009 | 5 Comments

Bus lane free. Photo: LA Wad/Flickr The city of Los Angeles’ Wilshire Boulevard Bus-Only Lane project took another step forward at this morning’s full city council hearing. The project would implement peak-hour bus-only lanes from Pico Union to Santa Monica. It’s calculated to speed bus times by about 25%. More information at Metro’s project website. Last week, despite […]

Wilshire Bus-Only Lane Needs Full Environmental Review After All

By Damien Newton | Sep 3, 2009 | 19 Comments

Curitiba’s BRT: Inspired Bus Rapid Transit Around the World

By Elizabeth Press | Apr 1, 2009 | 8 Comments

Curitiba, Brazil first adopted its Master Plan in 1968. Since then, it has become a city well known for inventive urban planning and affordable (to the user and the city) public transportation. Curitiba’s Bus Rapid Transit system is the source of inspiration for many other cities including the TransMilenio in Bogotá, Colombia; Metrovia in Guayaquil, […]

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