[sustran] Re: BRTS- Why kill the Goose that laid the golden eggs?

[Lee Schipper]

An additional factor here-- people riding buses to work usually live in relatively dense neighborhoods, the same that disgorge carpools. So in a sense carpools are competing with the buses in BRT.

Lee Schipper
Director of Research, EMBARQ
www.embarq.wri.org
>From Oct 1, Visiting Scholar, 
UC Transportation Center
UC Berkeley, CA 
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-----Original Message-----
From: sustran-discuss-bounces+schipper=wri.org at list.jca.apc.org on behalf of Sudhir
Sent: Fri 11/23/2007 4:32 AM
To: Global 'South' Sustainable Transport
Subject: [sustran] BRTS- Why kill the Goose that laid the golden eggs?
 
The Purpose of Providing BRTS gets defeated when private automobiles are allowed in the Bus lanes.

 The provision was to increase the congestion in auto lane (indirectly) in order to make the Public Transportation attractive.

When finally we got a golden opportunity with construction caused congestion,

Again going back to the same arrangement (mixed traffic in lanes) even if for small time, would have disastrous repercussions in future.

People/Politicians would start asking for such lanes whenever there is congestion thus deafeating the purpose of BRTS.

 

Sir, your opinion?


Sudhir
Project Engineer,
Highways Div. 
SECON Pvt Ltd. 
147, 7B Road, EPIP, 
Whitefield, Bangalore 560066 
Ph: 080-41197778 (413)

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