Vision of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) for San Francisco

BRT delivers transit improvements quickly and cost effectively. Imagine transit on Van Ness and Geary with dedicated travel lanes, well-designed stations, and more. See our website at http://www.sfcta.org/vanness for more information. Thanks for watching!

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• BRT
• San Francisco
• bus rapid transit
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• SFCTA

[bythefault]

Wrong. Light rail is 10x more expensive than a BRT. Moreover when you have a light rail breakdown, the whole system can go down as happened recently here in SF with a derailment in the West Portal tunnel. The K, L, M and T lines were shut down for an entire day. That wouldn't happen in a BRT system. One bus breaking down doesn't crash the whole system. Light rail has advantages but BRTs are more flexible, can be built in a matter of months and less cost prohibitive.

[HendrixnTonic]

I got another idea. How about you space out stops instead of every block or every other block to every 4-5 blocks? That would make commutes so much quicker. The most anyone would have to walk would be 2-3 blocks.. thats nothing, our fat asses need it.

[Baron2yahoo]

@Salvia02390 it's because most bus systems are cheap and unappealing to the general public. Buses are already used in most cities of the world as alternative forms of personal transit and serve little to no role in actual economic development.

[RichKilla86ers]

This concept is better than charging drivers or more like ripping off drivers coming in-and-out of SF

[Baron2yahoo]

@tech4156 yeah they did, it was called the subway.

[tech4156]

the BRT will make millions and cut traffic vastly, TBH they should have had this decades ago

[theraptorfan100]

@91puzzlesolver

The fact that traffic will be so bad will be all the more reason to take the bus.

[jemdude22]

better yet if the buses running on BRT lines are electric trolleybuses. BRT is cheaper than LRT as it does not require steel tracks laid into the streets.

[daehannp]

jakarta have the most longgest BRT track in the world, we call it trans jakarta busway :)

[91puzzlesolver]

this seems a good idea, but, despite the fact of how attractive it looks on a diagram, imagine the traffic on Van Ness... its horrible!!! and adding that you're cutting 4 lanes, the traffic will be morbidly unthinkable and horryfing, I'd vote for a subway system or more frequent buses, honestly, BRT on Van Ness is not a good idea, from my point of view

[shortsf]

If we have center islands, then we will have to get low buses that have doors on both sides of the bus. Hopefully we won't have many accidents from doors opening on the wrong side.