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courageous_liquid t1_j8o7zsp wrote

Reply to comment by mortgagepants in Do you want a Roosevelt Blvd Subway? Tell the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission ASAP! by markskull

SEPTA and the city desperately do not want to call anything they're doing BRT.

There's a bus on the boulevard that operates like BRT but they were INSANELY adamant about not calling it that.

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leninluvr t1_j8om4dp wrote

It’s a direct/express bus, not BRT. Needs dedicated right of way to be BRT

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courageous_liquid t1_j8omijc wrote

Yeah, it's BRT-light, it doesn't have some elements required for full 'BRT' designation like pre-paying fares and shit too.

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tkdnw t1_j8oo6ph wrote

It doesn't have any brt elements except wider stop spacing afaik

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courageous_liquid t1_j8oq5o2 wrote

level boarding, branding, improved shelters, transit signal priority, only high-ridership stops, etc.

again, there's a lot more that probably could be done (all-door boarding, prepay) but I think you can call it BRT-light without too much pain

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