Topic: Bus transit news outside Ohio

[mrnyc]

yay for this already and i wish it was even more quiet!
i dont mind the beeping, but i really cant stand that loud pneumatic hiss lowering noise.

10/29/2010

MTA Works To Bring Down Its Decibel Level
By: John Mancini

On the heels of a study saying New Yorkers are being stressed out by too much noise, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority says it's doing what it can to help – at least in one small way. NY1 Transit reporter John Mancini filed the following report on how one sound New Yorkers hear from buses may become a bit less irritating.

The beeping noise that buses make while becoming handicapped accessible may not be the loudest thing about the bus, but it can be the most annoying if you live along a route.

"At night, when people are trying to sleep or rest in their apartment, the last thing they want to hear is a noisy bus outside their window or door,” said MTA Bus President Joseph Smith.


video:
http://www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/transit/128017/mta-works-to-bring-down-its-decibel-level/

[mrnyc]

rail-like??? 
ny's first fully dedicated brt service lanes coming to the bronx:


Select Bus Service on Webster Ave. could feature first median bus lanes and stops in the city, speed up travel
Webster Ave. bus route is least reliable in Bronx

 
By Daniel Beekman / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, May 25, 2012, 6:00 AM




The Bronx could become home to the first median bus lanes and bus stops in the city, transportation officials revealed at a public meeting this month.

The city plans to add Select Bus Service on Webster Ave. and one option for the project includes bus lanes with bus stops along the center of the road - somewhat like the trolley lines that crisscrossed New York many decades ago.

The express service could speed up bus travel on the clogged thoroughfare - and steal business from the livery cab drivers who ply the busy strip. The bus lanes that already exist elsewhere are located curbside or between lanes.


more:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/select-bus-service-webster-ave-feature-median-bus-lanes-stops-city-speed-travel-article-1.1084188

[StrapHanger]

That's awesome.  For some reason I love riding buses in NYC.  And they've come so, so far in the last 5 years.

[KJP]

This is pretty radical. And I suspect others will copy it to respond to falling gas tax revenues and millennials' diverse transportation needs....

IL: Panel Recommends Mass Transit for Rebuilt Addams Tollway
RICHARD WRONSKI
SOURCE: CHICAGO TRIBUNE

May 25--The Illinois Tollway should include congestion-priced, "managed" lanes and mass-transit options such as express buses as part of its plan to rebuild the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway, an advisory council recommended Thursday.

The group also urged the Illinois Department of Transportation to consider continuing those special lanes and transit options on the Kennedy Expressway all the way to downtown Chicago.

The recommendations were reached after nine months of study by an advisory panel of planning experts, transportation officials, state and local officials and business groups along the Interstate Highway 90 corridor from Chicago to Rockford.

READ MORE AT:
http://www.masstransitmag.com/news/10721596/il-panel-recommends-mass-transit-for-rebuilt-addams-tollway?cmpid=email_MASS120519002&utm_source=MASS+NewsViews+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MASS120519002

[eastvillagedon]

That's awesome.  For some reason I love riding buses in NYC.  And they've come so, so far in the last 5 years.

Aren't decdicated bus lanes supposed to already exist in Manhattan for Select Bus service, at least on 1st Ave (?), although along the curb (along with the regular non-Select buses), not in the middle of the street. That doesn't seem to prevent other vehicles from attempting to clog them up.

[mrnyc]

thats why they are looking at a more traditional brt strategy for the select brt service (that is, cle euclid ave style w/ the dedicated center lanes). the curb lane does not seem to be effective for moving brt busses along. and to that i say duh!

[StrapHanger]

I've actually been impressed with the enforcement of the lanes the M34 uses and found the ride pretty fast.  It is actually kind of amazing to have a relatively easy transit ride from Penn Station to the East Side.  What totally freaks me out with the curbside lanes, though, is that they fill up with pedestrian overflow from crowded sidewalks, who, without fear from regular traffic, seem to forget about the buses.  Looking through the bus windshield I felt like I was watching some 1920s video of a Brooklyn streetcar just barely avoiding horrible pedestrian fatalities.

[mrnyc]

i've had much less luck with them on the avenues. cars! using the middle lane when possible will be a vast improvement.

[KJP]

Pittsburgh interested in bus rapid transit between downtown and Oakland

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/letters/bus-rapid-transit-means-fast-efficient-service-684395/

[clvlndr]

Pittsburgh interested in bus rapid transit between downtown and Oakland

http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/letters/bus-rapid-transit-means-fast-efficient-service-684395/

This is almost the identical situation Cleveland faced when it chose BRT over HRT/LRT to serve its "spine" line to its similar high-density educational/cultural/tourist/residential district.