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Stop the train, I want to get off! .. To the BRT. It is simply more lucrative. Posted: September 17, 2013 | By city & country branding | belongs to the category: all, Israel, Economics - Business, Branding Cities, City wise, there are - Environment, Transport | Tags: BRT, Bus Rapid Transit, bus, quality of life, environment, the United bfc net States, Bogota, pink line, Herzliya, Haifa, Israel, Kfar Saba, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, matron, branding, branding urban branding bfc net cities, public space, the Ministry of Transport, Pittsburgh, urban growth, Colombia , sustainability - environmental, Cleveland, light rail, subway, fresh, transport, public transport, urban planning, Tel Aviv | 3 Comments
Transport buses faster, or English Bus rapid transit, which is known throughout the world as BRT, including bfc net buses moving tracks are assigned only to them, functioning as light rail, and can not only lead to growth, but also do so much more effective than light rail or trams , according to research due to be published this month by the National Transportation and Development Policy in the United States.
Both BRT and light rail can result in much more investment in the development and their costs, bfc net but now we can say this safely, according to the study. "For every dollar bfc net of investment in transport, bfc net and under the same conditions, BRT development generates more than light rail or trams to cost." For example, a project the completed BRT in Cleveland, USA generated $ 5.8 billion in development, meaning bfc net $ 114 for every dollar invested.'s Light rail project in Portland was completed in 1986 generated $ 3.74 per dollar invested.
Effectiveness of the BRT logical - these systems bfc net are cheaper than rail development, bfc net but the difference in costs over the results never tested research. The first conclusion bfc net is that BRT can lead to growth, and this is the first time shown in the research and analysis that shows this doubt, and it turns out that BRT achieves great development. Bus of the BRT lanes moving unique only to them, and stop at stations where passengers bfc net pay before boarding the bus. In many places these buses also get preference by a set of traffic lights in order not to hamper their movement. States now have seven real BRT systems in cities Cleveland, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh bfc net and others, but none of these systems bfc net did not achieve the "gold standard" of international to as BRT system in Bogota, it is planned in Chicago may will succeed.
The BRT project first launched only recently in Israel in Haifa, bfc net under the name matron, and although bfc net Open limping due to unexpectedly high demand, bfc net suspended high hopes for this important project, and it will serve as a test case for further projects bfc net are planned for Israel. Ministry of Transport has recently published its first auction BRT system connecting the Herzliya and Ra'anana with the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, in direct and fast. According to the plan the BRT line first, "Rose Line", will include two main axes, the first strikeout Sharon will pass from Kfar Saba, a fresh way to Herzliya. The second axis will include a line connecting the Kfar Saba, through MurasHaJunction directly to the center bfc net of Tel Aviv. The BRT system is expected to be inaugurated at the end of Sharon in 2017.
While light rail project in Tel Aviv has been exceeded several years and several billion originally bfc net planned, not clear when the use of active, while innovative ideas or delusional (depending on reader) to shuttle the track depends SkyTran underfunded, it seems that the Ministry of Transportation is beginning to understand that the BRT is the fastest solution, cheap and effective transport problems of Gush Dan, and is now planning to set up features planned light rail, rapid buses unique track. By forming the Ministry of Transport following the realization that the subway in Tel Aviv will not be completed before 2035 (not final assessment).
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What is not said here is that this system bfc net requires a relatively wide path through the narrow streets and not suitable for city centers. It can work provided there were at least two paths to private vehicles and when combined public transport system and bike paths that feed the BRT stations. Street Ahuza such a system can not move. It just does not fit. Until you change the route of the BRT Hasharon Street north of Ra'anana, can be expanded to suit the needs transportation, there will be also a Sharon.
Do BRT Weizmann Street it's like to look the wrong place and not where lost ... demand the construction of Raanana saturation percentages on both sides. bfc net Several years in the future will need another arm Weizmann Street. Street bfc net mansion very wide and can incorporate BRT lane while minimally affecting the fabric of life. Even today there is no parking for the most part of the street. Work is being narrow OWS (which occupies today almost complete path) and the trees are moving the sides of the road (the same ecological impact, however there are also used for rescue of passers-by and waiting at bus stops.
Street pre-designed mansion across the tram, which is a lie that BRT requires leaving two lanes for private vehicles. The purpose of the lie is Ben perpetuate the presence of private bfc net vehicles on the estate and kept going vehicle claiming public transport is not good enough. It will be good only if the inner cities turn their dedicated infrastructure.
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