Is BRT Better For Kansas City?!?!

Reader suggested link from our blog community. One of our best & brightest said: "They are claiming development numbers that rival Kansas City's streetcar numbers but no rails have to be planted in the street or overhead wires like the dumbass streetcar. And they have a Tom Selleck look-a-like engineer being interviewed!"

Here's word about bus stop development and a line that also claims to have generated millions. Read more:

RTA plans 'rebranding' of two HealthLine bus stations in University Circle as 'Museum Stops'

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority plans to host a gathering at 1 p.m. today to announce the "rebranding" of two HealthLine bus rapid transit stations near cultural attractions in University Circle as "The Museum Stop." An RTA announcement states that "colorful artwork and depictions of area museums are included in the new designs that embellish the stations."

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  1. Of course Busses would be better, but they would have to serve the entire City adequately in order to earn sufficient revenues to be self-supporting, something the ATA has never done yet.

    Nostalgia aside the reason that Streetcars worked so well in the past was that they went from where the people live to where they work (and back), they didn't try to function in a "social engineering" capacity, and the same holds true for Busses.

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  2. Surely your "best and brightest" is aware of the fact that there are 4 rail lines in Cleveland (1 heavy and 3 light) which buses feed into. p/s A ride on the train from the airport to downtown was $2.50 last time I checked--not $55 that I pay for a cab from KCI to downtown.

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  3. ^^^^^We have a bus that goes to the airport for $1.50, but the ATA has made it so inconvenient to use that few people take it.

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  4. The Streetcar is not "a rail line". It's a slow-moving bus on rails, but not rapid transit like real rail lines.

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