Irrespective of the rest, we're in agreement that a lot of AC Transit drivers are scary drivers.
The most successful BRTs have their own lanes--it really makes a huge difference; there has been a lot of success even taking lanes on existing streets (rather than building separate corridors).
LA's bigger than the Bay Area, but the Bay Area is certainly large enough to make BRT worthwhile, e.g. the San Leandro-Berkeley corridor. The density of Oakland, e.g., is comprable to the LA/OC area, and Berkeley and SF are denser. I don't know the density of the whole East Bay; I did a cursory google search and wasn't patient enough to learn much more than that "The San Francisco Bay area contains the largest density of high-pressure researchers in the world."
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Date: 2008-10-27 06:28 pm (UTC)The most successful BRTs have their own lanes--it really makes a huge difference; there has been a lot of success even taking lanes on existing streets (rather than building separate corridors).
LA's bigger than the Bay Area, but the Bay Area is certainly large enough to make BRT worthwhile, e.g. the San Leandro-Berkeley corridor. The density of Oakland, e.g., is comprable to the LA/OC area, and Berkeley and SF are denser. I don't know the density of the whole East Bay; I did a cursory google search and wasn't patient enough to learn much more than that "The San Francisco Bay area contains the largest density of high-pressure researchers in the world."