Thanks for reading! BRTs can and should be cost-effective solutions to our transit needs in New York’s many transit deserts. They don’t need to be the over-engineered and costly Lexus models like the MTA has delivered with the 7 train to Hudson Yards and the Second Avenue subway. My recommendation: build basic BRT systems in our transit deserts in Queens and Brooklyn, and between Co-op City and the rest of the Bronx and spend the money saved on elevators to the platforms where required to make the system fully accessible, and linking new BRT stations with safe, pedestrian and bike infrastructure and Citibike docks.
Great read. BRT would work really well in the far reaches of Queens & Brooklyn where subways fear to tread and where the avenues are wide.
Thanks for reading! BRTs can and should be cost-effective solutions to our transit needs in New York’s many transit deserts. They don’t need to be the over-engineered and costly Lexus models like the MTA has delivered with the 7 train to Hudson Yards and the Second Avenue subway. My recommendation: build basic BRT systems in our transit deserts in Queens and Brooklyn, and between Co-op City and the rest of the Bronx and spend the money saved on elevators to the platforms where required to make the system fully accessible, and linking new BRT stations with safe, pedestrian and bike infrastructure and Citibike docks.
[Note: the Department of Transportation has experimented with center-lane bus lanes. The recent redesign of the Edward L. Grant Highway in Highbridge in the Bronx is a promising development]. See: https://joel-epstein.medium.com/per%C3%BA-plastico-limas-el-metropolitano-b2c404385