A Busload of Money for Chicago Transit

[marmar]

via MassTransitMag:



A Busload of Money for Chicago Transit


Marni Pyke
Chicago Daily Herald


ILLINOIS - Faster than an idling SUV. More powerful than a taxi. Able to leap congested intersections in a single surge.

It's a bus! It's a train! It's bus rapid transit and it's coming to Chicago.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters Tuesday pledged $153 million to create a bus-rapid-transit program in the city on four designated corridors.

The aim of the program is to reduce congestion and gridlock in Chicago. The city will use the funding to build 10 miles of what is anticipated to be 100 miles of bus rapid transit.

"Growing traffic congestion is keeping families apart, hurting business and polluting the air," Peters said at a press conference with Mayor Richard M. Daley and Chicago Transit Authority leaders.

The buses will travel on designated lanes at higher speeds than the norm and with fewer stops. They'll possess the technology to prolong green lights at traffic signals. .....(more)

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[ramapo]

1. That is wonderful news

The trains don't serve much of the city and expanding these lines would be frightfully expensive. Dedicated bus lanes is a great idea and this should really help people get around town.