[...] most people still associate exclusively with subways. (Sullivan mentions cities like Bogotá, Cleveland, Jakarta, and Guangzhou among the transit-enlightened, but leaves out Curitiba, BRT’s [...]

In 1955 an express bus without any fancy stuff covered the end to end route of the health line one minute slower than the current Health Line. In that era congestion in this corridor was much worse. One quarter billion is not a low cost alternative. I like BRT, but this implementation is prabaly a good case study of how NOT to do BRT. The riders like the newness, but complain about al sorts of the ways it has been implemented.

So sad to see such poor execution on this BRT.  The half with separate right of way (Public Square to E 107) was designed for 15 minute service, but normal is nearly double due to failure to use the signal priority system.  Fare machines were rated by one user from Europe as ‘The very worst of over three dozen system I’ve used — they can’t even use consistent terminology’.