05-16-2017, 07:55 AM
BRT can be great, or bad. Ride on the streetcar on King in Toronto, and it's easy to see that the same is true of other technologies, too.
The complaints about the tunnel were the cost, and (I suspect more so) the disruption of the construction. Plenty of people felt it should have been made costlier and more disruptive so it could also accommodate cars, though.
Yes, the system will be compromised, but not because it's BRT. This particular issue with the Richmond Street tunnel likely would have played out very similarly if council had opted for LRT, too.
The complaints about the tunnel were the cost, and (I suspect more so) the disruption of the construction. Plenty of people felt it should have been made costlier and more disruptive so it could also accommodate cars, though.
Yes, the system will be compromised, but not because it's BRT. This particular issue with the Richmond Street tunnel likely would have played out very similarly if council had opted for LRT, too.