On the potential and the momentum of BRT technology, acknowledged by The New York Times...

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“If you’ve ridden a bus in the United States, you may have come to the same conclusion as many Americans: They’re slow. They’re unreliable. And, if you have the choice, there are probably better ways to get around.?Politicians and transit agencies have long ignored buses, which disproportionately serve lower income people, in favor of road construction and rail projects that tend to cater to wealthier passengers. But in the past decade,?some have turned to modernizing an old idea: Bus Rapid Transit?— a set of tools and changes to technology, road design and route planning that, when combined, can?supercharge buses, making them faster and more reliable”.

The one above is the incipit of an?article by 纽约时报 , out in late 2023, “Could Better Buses Fix Your Commute?”, a must read that highlights the challenges faced by bus transportation in the United States and?advocate for the implementation of Bus Rapid Transit systems as a solution.?

BRT has recently been?defined by U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg?as “?the fastest-growing transit mode for a good reason”. And the global organization of public transport UITP acknowledged that “BRT is one of the biggest innovations the bus domain has ever seen”.

The trends towards BRT system is happening all around the world. In Dakar, Senegal,?the first BRT system in sub-Saharian Africa has just been inaugurated. The?World Bank is widely committed in investing in BRT projects?(on the list there are cities such as Abidjan, C?te d’Ivoire; Douala, Cameroon; Kampala, Uganda; Kumasi, Ghana; Maputo, Mozambique; and Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso). BRT systems have been launched or planned in diverse cities such as?Genoa,?Mexico City,?Madrid, just to mention a little few.

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?? Time for a quote

Cars have been getting wider for decades, and that trend will continue until we set a stricter limit. Currently,?the law allows new cars to be as wide as trucks. The result has been big SUVs and American style pick-up trucks parking on our footpaths and endangering pedestrians, cyclists and everyone else on the road

James Nix , Vehicles Policy Manager at T&E on?Intelligent Transport

?? What about a chart?

"Newly-sold passenger vehicles (i.e. cars) are getting one centimetre wider every 2 years"Source:?Transport&Environment