Epi
Active Member
Are you lampooning the LRT fanatic position here? I honestly can't tell anymore. If not, and I actually need to clarify this, then no I am not suggesting that. I have elsewhere referred to underground busways as the "pinnacle of dumb," so genuine it doesn't even make grammar. My point was that you can make bus spacing whatever the hell you want it to be at practically no cost. If LRTs extract a speed benefit from wider stop spacing, so do bus routes. If one of the main reason an "LRT" is faster than the bus route it replaces is stop spacing (+ POP boarding) it doesn't take an MBA to figure out that you can probably get 90% of the benefit with 10% of the cost.
Well the other major reason why Transit City will be faster than traditional bus routes is the semi-exclusive ROW.
Sure you can also built bus semi-exclusive ROWs, but generally you get lower capacity. You can only run buses so close together due to start/stop and safety. Meanwhile one train (or two trains coupled together) have a far higher capacity than any bus ever will. So not only does a semi-exclusive ROW LRT have all the speed advantages, it also has far higher capacity.