I personally find the scariest bit of my cycle to campus the part where Telegraph becomes one-way and there is no parking, because that's when there's no space between the buses and the kerb. Yes it's only an issue when the bus is going by, but I can't time my cycle ride to avoid buses! And yes, it means not having to worry about getting doored, but bus-drivers have no regard for cyclists.

Also, I'm not anti-BRT in general. I'm anti-poorly-thought-out-BRT. In LA, the Rapid buses primarily don't have their own lanes — they get places faster by, for example, having devices that keep traffic lights from changing if they're about to go through them. And LA has very very broad streets, with multiple lanes of traffic, so even if they did dedicate a lane to a rapid bus, it wouldn't affect traffic patterns too much. But in LA they actually built a whole new busway for the buses (one which, I might point out, includes dedicated cycle lanes). And in LA, they actually have the ridership to make it worthwhile. There's an attachment to driving in LA because efficient public transit there has always been a joke and because it's so large — that's why the BRT down there has been so effective. (And it does actually give one an efficient alternative to sitting in commuter traffic congestion, rather than producing further congestion.)

Anyway, time to go support my local business.