Bus Rapid Transit

Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) has unique features that provide a premium service with a rail-like experience - including dedicated right-of-way, off-board fare collection, signal priority, and more. See examples of how this works on BRT systems in Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

Following a national trend, MARTA is embracing the benefits of BRT - faster delivery, more cost-efficient use of resources - along with providing a flexible and reliable, premium transit service that is like rail. MARTA is working to expand service with this new mode in several communities in Atlanta.

[Conellossus]

If you build this in your city, at least give the buses signal priority at traffic lights so that the 'rapid' in bus rapid transit could make sense.

[electro_sykes]

MARTA, you should Build a new Light Rail line between Downtown Atlanta, through the Northwest suburbs to Marietta along the median of the I-75. And once the line reaches Atlanta, it could take over the right of way from the Existing Atlanta Streetcar, which would be upgraded to accommodate Light Rail.

[thumuslol]

its a step in the right direction for sure

[electro_sykes]

Well, you must build a system similar to the Brisbane Metro. Brisbane's new Metro pilot test vehicle is a very good example of combined Rubber tyred Tram/Train and Bus Rapid Transit system. And it is battery-powered, so it is Eco-Friendly. Once the project is fully complete and all the vehicles are rolled out, there will even be flash chargers at the end of every route/line that can charge one whole unit in under 5 minutes. Its design allows it to be expanded anywhere at a lower cost, as it can run on any road, ranging from Bus lanes along a busy road to brand new fully dedicated Transitways and even de-clog existing Transitways by using their right of way. In Brisbane, once complete, the Metro will use existing Transitways (or Busways, as locals refer to them) will focus on going into the city and getting buses out of the city, making more space for pedestrians and Bike infrastructure. In addition, this allows for brand new Circular Bus routes radiating around the city between different suburbs, allowing better connections to both major Bus Station, the existing Queensland Rail System and even the new metro.
I think many U.S. cities can adopt systems similar to Brisbane's new metro, as it is very cheap and easy to convert car based infrastructure and the vehicles can even run on Roads which only require bus priority upgrades.

[Mike_Malloy]

These transit promo videos always look like there's little road obstacles, hardly any traffic or pedestrians walking around. Not reality at all in Atlanta, GA.

[MYvesAllaire]

Please focus on expanding rail vs. multimodal hubs. The whole GA 400 north project is a a tremendous failure of vision for GA. Instead of getting on the train in Cumming or Alpharetta with service to the airport and all stations in between, people have to wait for a bus and then travel down GA 400 in traffic only to have to disembark at North Springs, go up to the platform and wait for a train to begin the efficient travel that could have begun miles north. Don't even get me started on the foolishness of what GDOT built up in in Cobb Co. Georgia is missing a huge transit opportunity by not expanding rail and giving over to more congestion and gridlock. (sigh)

[slave]

Atlanta's drivers are never going to understand or give yield to bus' they will freak out, plus, take a look at CCT Rapid 10, it really has too many stops and is not truely rapid at all. Rapid should basically be a bridge from one hub to another, such as linking one far station to another, it should not attempt to operate as yet another stop by stop bus.