What are the operating benefits of EmX?
Traffic congestion is increasing along with the growth in our community. And we know that as buses are increasingly delayed or stuck in traffic, our service will get worse, not better. By protecting the bus from traffic congestion through exclusive transit lanes, traffic signal priority, and other BRT enhancements, LTD can provide faster, more reliable transit service for our customers. This will make transit an increasingly attractive transportation alternative. Besides better service for our customers, EmX offers LTD the potential for lower operating costs and higher ridership productivity per mile of service. Compared to traditional transit, EmX vehicles should get better fuel mileage, travel farther in each service hour, provide better schedule reliability, and carry more customers per service hour than a conventional bus system. Will we have a name other than BRT for the system? Since BRT is a generic term for a transit mode, it was important to come up with a name that could be d
