Restoring Prosperity
The Greater Ohio Policy Center Blog
Bus rapid transit, or BRT, is a bus-based public transport system designed to have better capacity and reliability than a conventional bus system. Standard BRT systems include roadways that are dedicated to buses and give priority to buses at intersections where buses may interact with other traffic.
The new policy will be important for Ohio, which reversed a four year trend last year, experiencing an increase in the number of pedestrian-related crashes last year, while at the same time continuing the trend of an increase in the number of fatal accidents (up for the second year in a row following a three-year decline).
As newly appropriated funds start flowing, GOPC has once again prepared principles to help ODOT, MPOs and Ohio’s legacy cities and communities fully utilize from these dollars.
