Riding the "Subway on the Street"

A Test Drive of North America's Newest Bus Rapid Transit Line

Bus Rapid Transit is a great idea, but one that only rarely gets properly implemented. Especially in the United States and Canada. I’ve ridden BRT systems in Mexico, Colombia, Turkey, and China, and they do exactly what they’re supposed to: they whip riders along at rapid-transit speeds, often past drivers of cars stuck in traffic in adjoining lanes. In…