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Re: PHOTOS of Curitiba's BRT System (Brazil) |
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Posted by WMATAGMOAGH on Wed Jan 19 06:27:48 2011, in response to Re: PHOTOS of Curitiba's BRT System (Brazil), posted by The Flxible Neofan on Tue Jan 18 20:07:13 2011. Former mayor Lerner would say that we are not. He told me in our private meeting the reason they opted for BRT was that at the time of his first term, the mayor was picked by the governor, not democratically elected, and didn't have a set term. As a result, he and his cohorts wanted to implement their progressive policies before they would be removed from office for any reason, and it was far cheaper and easier to build BRT in the long term. He says good BRT can provide just as much coverage and capacity for far cheaper than building a subway or LRT can, and generally pushes that practice.Unfortunately, his book is only in Portuguese, so I don't think I'll be reading it any time soon. |
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