>>1027843The point is to make the buses run as efficiently and productively as possible before spending wildly on a rail-based intervention. Just about every country in the world has figured this out except for the US, and thus cities large and small suffer from some of the lowest light rail ridership per km. Improving bus transit in America is a shamefully downplayed and ignored topic, not just for class-based but also bureaucratic reasons. Among mid-sized cities, only Houston has begun the work to optimize the network within the existing budget, with Indianapolis and Baltimore following. But who knows when the bus will truly see a renaissance on par with streetcars and light rail today?
