Top 10 Cities for Bus Rapid Transit in North America - Plus Bonus Mexico City Content

We haven't given buses nearly enough love on this channel, so now it's time to look at Bus Rapid Transit, what it is, and which North American cities do it best. Lower capacity than a subway but certainly higher than Tesla Tunnels, BRT is a more affordable, lower-intervention option for cities looking to expand their transit offerings.

Our journey today takes us to:
- Curitiba, Brazil and Bogota, Colombia, to learn from the cities that really put BRT on the map
- Canada, where we look at Ottawa's groundbreaking Transitway and see how that city is settling the bus rapid transit vs. light rail question
- A variety of US cities that have succeeded in implementing BRT, and
- Mexico, to check out the Metrobus, the Mexibus, the Macrobus, and...yeah, lots of services with the word "bus" in them.

It's bus nerd day. Come along for the ride!

Other CityNerd vides referenced in this video:
- Key Cities/Stations for HSR in North America:    • The 10 Key Stations for High Speed Ra...  
- Transit to Beaches, Worldwide:    • World's Top 10 Beach-Transit Connecti...  
- Transit to NFL Stadiums:    • Top Ten Transit to NFL Stadium Connec...  
- Transit to Airports in North America:    • North America's Best Airport-Transit ...  

Resources:
Download page for the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy's publication, "The BRT Standard": https://www.itdp.org/publication/the-...
ITDP scorecard and rankings: https://www.itdp.org/library/standard...
Wikipedia BRT page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_rap...
Wikipedia CTfastrak page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CT_Fastrak

Photo Credits:
Vine logo By C-Tran - The Vine Fact Sheet, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Swift logo from By The logo is from the following website: http://www.communitytransit.org/, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
TriMet FX logo from the following website: https://news.trimet.org/2021/06/trime...
EmX photo By User:Cacophony - This file was derived from: Eugene-EMX.jpg, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
CT Fastrak photo By Pi.1415926535 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Duquesne Incline video https://www.visitpittsburgh.com/blog/...
Pittsburgh Busway photo from http://www.pittsburghtransit.org/busw...
MetroBus map by Secretaria de Movilidad - http://data.metrobus.cdmx.gob.mx/imag..., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Cablebus photo by Jefatura de Gobierno de la Ciudad de México / Gobierno de la Ciudad de México - https://www.jefaturadegobierno.cdmx.g..., CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Music:
CityNerd background: Caipirinha in Hawaii by Carmen María and Edu Espinal (YouTube music library)

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