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Sorry - I confused the two master plans. It was the earlier one that was premised on mass transit.

The issue you mention about pedestrian crossings of US 29 was one of the main objections to BRT from the Four Corners area. This, by the way, is an underappreciated advantage of light rail over BRT. Tracks that carry a train with 300 passengers every 5 minutes are much easier to cross than a pair of bus lanes with a bus with 60 passengers once a minute (a bus every 30 seconds when you count both lanes). If the passenger load gets higher than that, it's much easier & less expensive to put rail underground than a bus. The physical carrying capacity of a transit system is one thing; the passenger load it can carry without degrading the urban environment is another.

BTW, the link to the Planning Board letter on the page linked above has been fixed.

by Ben Ross on Jun 9, 2012 10:32 am • link • report

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