Leggett: Bus Rapid Transit Too Expensive for County
Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett says the county cannot afford to build a 10-route bus rapid transit system.
The bus rapid transit system proposed by Montgomery County planners for major county routes received a blow on Monday: Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett said the system would be too expensive to build, The (Washington) Examiner reported. "Instead, Leggett suggested a significantly smaller system with fewer bells and whistles than the proposed high-end bus rapid transit, or BRT, system," The Examiner added. The planners' proposal was for a 10-route system, which would have cost less than the 23-route bus rapid transit system proposed by the all-volunteer Transit Task Force last spring. The task force put its system's price tag at $1.8 billion, while Montgomery County Master Planner Larry Cole figured the 23-route system would have …
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Barry Graham
11:58 pm on Sunday, December 2, 2012
The problem is that the buses would create more traffic for those, like me, that wouldn't find the system useful because it doesn't go where it's needed. Instead spend the money on creating metro lines that cross the city, and on building overpasses on the congested roads like Route 29 that already have overpasses planned but no money for them. more ›