Comments on: NJ Gradually Clearing Away Obstacles to Bus Rapid Transit http://blog.tstc.org/2009/07/10/nj-gradually-clearing-away-obstacles-to-bus-rapid-transit/ News and opinion from the Tri-State Transportation Campaign Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:08:09 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Clark Morris http://blog.tstc.org/2009/07/10/nj-gradually-clearing-away-obstacles-to-bus-rapid-transit/comment-page-1/#comment-1345 Clark Morris Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:30:08 +0000 http://blog.tstc.org/?p=5238#comment-1345 As a former resident of Bloomfield, I hope that the new bus (and all bus that serve Bloomfield Center) will have the rehabilitated Bloomfield station as a stop. I also hope that someone was smart enough to put in high-level platforms for level boarding. Maybe New Jersey Transit would even get smart enough to treat rail as just another bus route for fare and transfer purposes. For everyone who supports the change in axle loadings to allow low floor buses, be aware that street and road maintenance costs will go up. Take a look at the experience of the Orange Line Busway in Los Angeles. If there is going to be increased expenditure on road maintenance, it might be cheaper in the Bloomfield Avenue, Springfield Avenue, Broad Street, West Market-Martin Luther King (formerly Main Street) corridors to put in streetcars. As a former resident of Bloomfield, I hope that the new bus (and all bus that serve Bloomfield Center) will have the rehabilitated Bloomfield station as a stop. I also hope that someone was smart enough to put in high-level platforms for level boarding. Maybe New Jersey Transit would even get smart enough to treat rail as just another bus route for fare and transfer purposes.

For everyone who supports the change in axle loadings to allow low floor buses, be aware that street and road maintenance costs will go up. Take a look at the experience of the Orange Line Busway in Los Angeles.

If there is going to be increased expenditure on road maintenance, it might be cheaper in the Bloomfield Avenue, Springfield Avenue, Broad Street, West Market-Martin Luther King (formerly Main Street) corridors to put in streetcars.

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