01-24-2020, 12:06 PM
(01-22-2020, 11:11 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(01-20-2020, 09:14 PM)MidTowner Wrote: The 200 had sufficient ridership to justify an investment in higher-order transit. But buses are cheaper to purchase, and a capital investment of x spent on buses means greater coverage than the same capital outlay on rail transit.
Yes. But it would not have spurred anywhere near the same level of development as what we are seeing next to the LRT line. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why we got an LRT instead of a BRT.
Absolutely, bus routes come and go but tracks are forever. No one builds a 30+ story condo tower on the promise of a bus route...
...K