The perils of bus rapid transit
Van Ness today. Note the traffic jam, made worse by the loss of a traffic lane.
From Randal O'Toole:
Ten years ago, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (Muni) decided to build a two-mile long busway on Van Ness Avenue, dedicating two lanes of the six-lane street exclusively to buses. The project was supposed to cost $125.6 million and make transit more attractive by speeding up buses....
The busway opened for business last week after more than a decade of planning and six years of construction. The final cost turned out to be $345.9 million, a mere 175 percent cost overrun. Ridership on Muni buses is currently about half what it was before the pandemic....
Since this is just two miles long, the average cost was $173 million per mile. That would have been considered unthinkably expensive for light rail a couple of decades ago. The idea that mere bus lanes should cost that much is ridiculous.
See also This just in: Van Ness BRT project is a fiasco!Labels: City Hall, Muni, Traffic in SF, Van Ness BRT
posted by Rob Anderson @ 12:11 PM
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4 Comments:
SFMTA boasts how they are inconveniencing drivers and causing more pollution just so a few more junkies can stumble across a street:
https://www.sfmta.com/sites/default/files/reports-and-documents/2022/04/tenderloinntor_factsheet_0.pdf
That link doesn't work.
yes it does
You're right, it does work. My mistake. And your mockery is noted.
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