{"id":195121935,"date":"2011-03-09T08:32:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T08:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=195121935"},"modified":"2011-03-09T08:32:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T08:32:15","slug":"rapid-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=195121935","title":{"rendered":"Rapid Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BRT-costs1.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I am a big fan a rapid bus, which is basically light rail without the rails but it still has stations far apart to make for a more time efficient ride. Not to mention you pay fairs to enter the station so boarding goes a lot faster. The big question of course will MTA trash this like they have other bus service or can they actually get that mass transit is a substitute for driving and needs a interconnected network for fast and efficient travel.  Mass transit is not a substitute for walking and biking with short circumambulated routes that require frequent transfers just to travel a main transportation corridor.<\/p>\n<p>Updated: Apparently Greater Greater Washington has concerns that Rapid Bus will suffer from what he calls &#8220;BRT&#8221; creep. <a href=\"https:\/\/greatergreaterwashington.org\/post.cgi?id=9600\">&#8220;BRT creep&#8221; makes bus rapid transit inferior to rail<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Read Streets Blog <a href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2011\/03\/08\/can-the-u-s-make-bus-rapid-transit-work-as-well-as-latin-america\/\">Can the U.S. Make Bus Rapid Transit Work as Well as Latin America?<\/a> for their commentary of issues. <\/p>\n<p>And this video from Street Films:<br \/>\n<object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=19806003&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=9086c0&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" \/><embed src=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=19806003&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=1&amp;color=9086c0&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/19806003\">Moving Beyond the Automobile: Bus Rapid Transit<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/streetfilms\">Streetfilms<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personally, I am a big fan a rapid bus, which is basically light rail without the rails but it still has stations far apart to make for a more time efficient ride. Not to mention you pay fairs to enter the station so boarding goes a lot faster. The big question of course will MTA &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=195121935\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rapid Bus&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195121935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mass-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195121935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195121935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195121935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195121935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195121935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195121935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}