2023 Could Be a Breakthrough Year for Buses

Funding bus rapid transit is the fastest and most cost-effective way to improve U.S. transit systems and bring transit within reach for more Americans. Writing in Curbed, Alissa Walker asserts that “To get the U.S. moving again, 2023 needs to be the year of the bus.” And it very well could be, if a bill introduced by Congresswoman Cori Bush passes. The Bus Rapid Transit Act would allocate $12 billion per year for five years to BRT projects, funneling dollars directly to transit operations and helping cities invest in the design and construction of new BRT systems, including overhauls of current bus routes. Bush also introduced an identical bill aimed at light rail, but, Walker points out, “the BRT program gives cities more flexibility and more options.” As an example, “Indianapolis, a city that doesn’t have a rail system, built its wildly popular 13-mile IndyGo BRT line in just a few years and at a fraction of what rail would have cost.”

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