Intercity bus transportation

[ijmorlan]

I mean...I guess. Just seems pedantic to worry. It's a bus, it's rapid (every ten minutes) and it's transit. That's BRT to me even if it doesn't have dedicated lanes. It's just a stopgap system until the Cambridge line is finished.

Hang on, “every ten minutes” has nothing to do with “rapid”. You could have a regular bus stopping every block in near-gridlocked traffic on a 2 minute headway and that wouldn’t be “rapid”. Or you could have one bus an hour in its own lane going 120km/h and stopping every 10km, and it would be rapid.

Anyway, the whole point of BRT is that it is supposed to use buses to implement rapid transit; getting stuck in traffic is antithetical to that concept. I would accept a system which has bits of street running here and there, especially if the road segments in question rarely get congested, but what we have is definitely not BRT. Words are supposed to mean things.