[sustran] Re: (NEWS) Mumbai's BRTS project turns into a joke!

[Todd Edelman, Green Idea Factory]

Alan Howes wrote:
> [...] The problem, however, with with-flow bus lanes placed immediately to the left of the median is that, assuming bus stops are on the median, the bus doors are on the wrong side (an expensive problem to fix). MMRDA explained to me an ingenious proposal for overcoming this - at the stops the buses would swap sides, crossing the median through a gap immediately before and after the stop. This sounds perfectly feasible to me - the only potential problem I foresee is that the necessary gaps will be used (illegally) by other traffic, or even pedestrians (who get a pretty raw deal in terms of getting across the road).
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That seems really dangerous unless there are electronic safety systems, 
etc. Am I missing something?

- T

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