Why is LRT technology preferred over improving bus service?
Why is LRT technology preferred over improving bus service? LRT is more comfortable for riders, quieter, has no emissions on the street, and is far superior in carrying capacity in a constrained environment such as an arterial roadway. Buses in dedicated lanes, sometimes called BRT, or bus rapid transit, could not easily accommodate 4600 to 5000 people the peak hour demand projected in this corridor in 2031- unless the bus ROW includes by-pass lanes at intersections/stations to allow some buses to operate express and pass local buses stopped to serve customers. To illustrate the problem, it would require 64 articulated buses per hour to accommodate a peak hour demand of 4800 people. That is a bus approximately every minute. Even with dedicated lanes, buses operating this close together would catch up to one another and bunching would result if some of them dont operate express. Further, if the projected demand is greater than expected, a bus-based system would not be able to adapt easi
