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- noun Plural form of
busway .
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Now, with gridlock commonplace, the focus is back on high-capacity transit systems – light rail, interurban heavy rail, dedicated busways – to catch up with the transportation demands of millions of people.
Los Angeles Pushing To Become Nation's Mass Transit Leader 2010
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London is the only city in the * entire world* which I know of which has implemented significant amounts of bus lanes on existing roads (rather than building new ‘busways’ for future conversion to general purpose roads), and successfully enforced them, and actually gotten the desired result of buses speeding past congestion.
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This is all in addition to the “Metroliner” Orange Line, which is BRT, and a couple of other lines that run on busways along freeways.
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The growth concentration areas are to be served by intermediate capacity transit which could be SkyTrain, LRT or busways.
Subway to UBC still a financial pipe dream « Stephen Rees’s blog 2009
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But within the next three years, the next three or four busways should be open too, resulting in much easier and faster travel for the north side.
Testing Brisbane’s Railway Wi-Fi Network | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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You mean like Curitiba's dedicated busways for their Bus Rapid Transit BRT?
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Light rail costs 10 times what bus systems cost, even when the buses have dedicated busways Bus Rapid Transit
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The mayor, Jaime Lerner, and his staff, discovered that heavy rail (a subway) would cost ten times more than light rail, which, in turn, would cost ten times more than bus rapid transit (buses with dedicated busways).
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Update on My Light Rail Bet: The Energy Issue 2008
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Eligible cities include those where rapid busways are planned for the near future, including Dakota County suburbs such as Apple Valley.
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Among those that made the list of recommendations: a streetcar line along the more urban parts of Robert Street; rapid busways on Robert Street and some big east-to-west routes like
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