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[–] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

This "light BRT" that the author suggests is just stripped-down BRT. If you do your BRT too light, it just becomes another bus with a different paint job. The cost control issues in North America keep getting in the way of great transit, where a line that should be a metro is light rail, a light rail line becomes BRT, and so on. As always, there is but one reason behind high transit construction costs: porky-happy