Bus rapid transit systems aiding climate change fight
In cities like Bogotá, Colombia, expensive subways systems are being eclipsed by more efficient and cost-effective mass bus systems. Will it catch on?
Photo: adrimcm/Flickr Subways cost more than 30 times as much per mile to build than a B.R.T. system, and three times as much to maintain. And bus rapid transit systems can be built more quickly. “Almost all rapidly developing cities understand that they need a metro or something like it, and you can get a B.R.T. by 2010 or a metro by 2060,” said Walter Hook, executive director of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, in New York.
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