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[quote user="railtrail"] Bus Rapid Transit is a Third World Solution to a Third World Problem in Third World Countrys. In the USA most people have cars and to draw them out of cars you have to provide something better. [/quote] Whether BRT is a third world solution is debatable.  It is working well enough in Austin, as well as several other cities, to cause transit planners to push for its expansion.  It is more cost effective than light rail. Whether it is so over the long run depends on numerous variables, i.e. population shift, equipment replacement, labor costs, etc. Nothing has gotten significant numbers of people out of their cars in Texas.  In Dallas, which has the longest light rail system in the United States - 91 miles, only 1.8 per cent of the population in the cities served by the light rail system use it.  In Texas most people prefer their cars and pick-up trucks for commuting. They don't have to sit next to someone who is shouting into a cell phone and may be a stranger to soap and water. They can set the air conditioning to their liking and listen to their favorite radio station or CD without having to wear ear phones.    Personal vehicles are more comfortable, convenient, and pleasant than public transit vehicles, no matter what form the transit vehicles take.  Most Americans, I suspect, are not going to give up the convenience of commuting by personal vehicle until the cost becomes prohibitive.  And the total cost of commuting by car, etc. is getting cheaper by the day!  Gasoline costs less than $3 a gallon in my neighborhood, with some stations offering it for $2.85 a gallon.  This does not bode well for transit planners.
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