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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

progree

(11,463 posts) Sun Mar 19, 2023, 05:04 AM Mar 2023

How An Autonomous Train-Bus Hybrid Could Transform City Transit

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How An Autonomous Train-Bus Hybrid Could Transform City Transit (Original Post) progree Mar 2023 OP

It is so shocking how outdated our systems are. But trackless alternatives in snow? hlthe2b Mar 2023 #1

We have several BRT (bus rapid transit) in Minneapolis, doesn't seem to be much of progree Mar 2023 #2

hlthe2b

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1. It is so shocking how outdated our systems are. But trackless alternatives in snow?

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Sun Mar 19, 2023, 06:02 AM

Mar 2023

It was not mentioned how that would work...

progree

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2. We have several BRT (bus rapid transit) in Minneapolis, doesn't seem to be much of

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Sun Mar 19, 2023, 10:05 AM

Mar 2023

Last edited Sun Mar 19, 2023, 10:37 AM - Edit history (1)

a problem (I monitor the Metro Transit Facebook page almost daily, and they post bulletins about weather delays), but we have vast armadas of snow plows, and the routes they travel on get very high priority.

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