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There are only about 3 citys that have exclusive BRT lanes

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[quote user="blue streak 1"] SAM.:  I believe Phoebe is closer to the information.  People who have to ride a bus are considered to be riding a  lower class service.  Charlotte is a very upscale city and BRT rankels those who might have to take it and will eliminate some perentage of potential riders.  According to an article in Railwy Age the costs of BRT are very much the same as light rail for the same level of grade separated service.. 1.  ROW 2.  Bridge and tunnel weight structure 3.  Track costs vs pavement costs nearly same 4.  Light rail  CAT costs more even if electric buses are used for BRT although electric buses would seem to mitigate some dislikes of diesel buses. 5. Operating costs both direct and operator costs much less especially when several LRT units used as train.  Opeerating costs are a continuing item for many years where as construction costs are immediate. Maintenance costs about the same  6.  Any grade crossings of LRT will be blocked less often for same number of passengers. 7.  Will be less complaints about priority signaling for LRT because of its higher capacity. 8.  Much easier for low floor LRT cars .  Other posters have noted low floor buses decrease capacity. [/quote] As of 2010, according to the American Public Transit Fact Book, there were 1,206 public transit agencies in the U.S. that relied primarily on buses, 28 commuter rail systems, and 35 light rail systems. In most areas of the country, especially outside of the Northeast, buses are a better option than rail. If one defines Rapid Bus Technology as running on a dedicated right-of-way, similar to the system they have in Adelaide, South Australia, the cost would be as great as or nearly as great as the cost of light rail. But most of the proposals for RBT that I have seen, at least for Texas, don't envision a dedicated right-of-way in the sense that it is only for RBT. They don't need it. They simply need a way to make the bus route a bit quicker.  And they can do that with stripped lanes, signal control, ease of getting on and off the bus, etc. The Adelaide system was very expensive and has not been duplicated anywhere else in Australia. I believe that there is a similar system in Germany. One of the advantages of the Adelaide system is the buses run from downtown along a dedicated guide-way for eight to ten miles. They leave the guide-way at various points or at the end and run as buses through the neighborhoods that they serve. Then its back to the guide-way and back downtown.
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