Recent Streetsblog LA posts about BRT

Streetfilms Praises Orange Line BRT and Bike Path

By Damien Newton | Mar 23, 2009 | 17 Comments

While in town last month, Streetfilms took its second look at Los Angeles’ Orange Line as a model for BRT’s around the country. In his summary of the above Streetfilm, Clarence Eckerson doesn’t hold back his praise for the Orange Line calling it "one of the best Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems in the U.S" […]

Bus-Only Lane for Wilshire Boulevard Still Years Away

By Damien Newton | Nov 13, 2008 | 36 Comments

Last night Metro and LADOT updated bus riders and travelers along the Wilshire corridor of their efforts to bring Bus Rapid Transit to Los Angeles’ West Side. If everything goes well, the project could enter its design stage in about a year. In the meantime the agencies will be placing the project under an environmental […]

Rave Review for Cleveland’s BRT Debut

By Ben Fried | Nov 13, 2008 | No Comments

Cleveland bus riders at one of the Health Line’s new stations. Cleveland’s first venture into Bus Rapid Transit — a 10-mile route called the Health Line — was turning heads before it fully launched, attracting planners from other cities looking to boost transit ridership. Now that the ribbons have been cut, the Plain Dealer’s Steven […]

Metro Schedules Community Meetings on Wilshire BRT

By Damien Newton | Nov 7, 2008 | No Comments

We Won’t Have to Worry About Local Buses on Rapid Routes after Wilshire Get’s BRT It’s been exactly eight months since Streetsblog last checked in on Metro’s plan to place a bus-only lane on Wilshire Boulevard, but now Metro is ready to discuss the preliminary results of their environmental studies and solicit feedback from the […]

Streetfilms: BRT in Paris

By Brad Aaron | Sep 30, 2008 | 1 Comment

For the third installment in her series of Paris, France Streetfilms, Elizabeth Press checks out Le Mobilien, the Parisian version of Bus Rapid Transit. Le Mobilien features curbside and onboard bus arrival info, mid-street boarding kiosks, a MetroCard-esque payment system, and — perhaps most crucial to its success — lanes that are physically separated from […]