[sustran] Re: "So much for green transport."

[bruun at seas.upenn.edu]

Alok, or someone:

Help us readers out that don't know the corridors. I already had  
explained to me that the buses don't have priority at the  
intersections at all.

How can the BRT really be so slow at 12 Km per hour? Even without  
priority at intersections, if one has laterally separated lanes, speed  
should be better than this. This doesn't sound like BRT at all to me.

Eric Bruun


Quoting Alok Jain <alok.priyanka at gmail.com>:

> Dear Eric,
>
> Lately this has been attracting a lot of press. I am attaching a few  
> articles.
>
> This quote from one of the persons representing one of the Residents  
> Welfare Association encapsulates the problem.
>
> ?While there are not even enough buses and other intermediary
> transport like autos that were promised long ago, the government is
> trying to push BRT without dependable and safe public transport. How
> can they even expect people to shift from private to public vehicles when
> they don?t have enough public vehicles? It appears like a money-making
> enterprise,?
>
> As I had mentioned earlier, I do see a rising support for public  
> transport but it has to be "good". By attaching a fancy acronym to a  
> half-baked idea, is doing injustice to the cause of public transport.
>
> Best Regards
> Alok
>
>