Overview
Cascadia Center supports development of a more extensive regional Bus Rapid Transit network in key corridors. We see BRT and "tolled" highway lanes as more cost effective in reducing regional congestion than capital-intensive light rail and construction of general-purpose highway lanes. Late last fall, not long after Cascadia sponsored a conference featuring former Bogotá, Columbia, mayor and Bus Rapid Transit proponent, Enrique Peñalosa, King County voted to implement a Bus Rapid Transit program.
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A New Vision For Developing Transit For Livable Cities." Enrique Penalosa, former mayor of Bogota, Columbia speaks at a Cascadia Center co-sponsored event on implementation of Bogota's TransMileno Bus Rapid Transit system. Seattle Channel video, 9/27/06.
Latin America Takes On Urbanization," Marcela Sanchez, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 1/17/07.
...Bogota, the urban capital of more than 7 million people, has been waging "the world's most aggressive campaign to recapture public space from private automobile users," says Walter Hook of the New York-based Institute for Transportation and Development Policy. Bogota, under then-Mayor Enrique Penalosa, seized traffic lanes in major thoroughfares in the city for its bus rapid-transit system. The TransMilenio, modeled after a system developed in Curitiba, Brazil, in 1974, now transports 53,000 passengers per direction per hour, comparable to the largest metro rail systems. Today Bogotanos can cover in 30 minutes the same distance that used to take them an hour or more.
Bus Rapid Transit In Puget Sound
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About Transit Now, King County Metro. (See "RapidRide" section).
King County Metro "Rapid Ride" BRT Brochure & Route Maps.
Chapter 7, "I-405 Plan: Transit and HOV", in "I-405 Congestion Relief & Bus Rapid Transit Projects - Final Recommendations Report," WSDOT. (See "I-405 BRT Service").
Snohomish County Community Transit's Everett-Seattle S.R. 99 "Swift" BRT Plan.
Bus Rapid Transit Elsewhere
Los Angeles County To Expand Bus Rapid Transit," Matt Rosenberg, Cascadia Prospectus, 6/06/07.
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From Brazil: A Different Kind Of Bus System, Jennifer Langston, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 4/12/06.
