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Just FYI: Checked with a speedometer app and LR the fastest it ever gets is 30 MPH. Buses in town that never use the freeway are mostly around 18 MPH with occasional bursts of up to 30 MPH.
the opportunities and dangers of incomplete bus rapid transit
One of Bus Rapid Transit's great virtues is that unlike rail, you don't have to build a complete, continuous piece of infrastructure if you really only need segments of one. Here in Portland, for example, the Barbur corridor -- now being studied for BRT or rail -- features a series of congeste...
KC Metro's racks built by Sportworks (in Woodinville, Washington) are _horrible_ and are supremely difficult to use. You need to push in on a button and then pull out often with great difficulty. Either the racks are badly designed or Metro sees no need to maintain them so that they work properly. Metro has had "demonstration" racks at several bike events and of course they work flawlessly but actual racks on bus not so much unfortunately and do not work so flawlessly and often work only with extended messing with them so they'll accept a bike or not work at all. Sportworks made a really bad design when they designed these "threesies" at least the double racks that they had previously were fairly easy to use. The current racks are anything but easy.
email of the week: more bike racks on buses?
A reader asks: Do you have any examples of buses that can take several bikes rather than just two on the front? I suggested at the Velovillage conference that transit companies run a competition for designs to put more bikes on buses. Where i live, many people are left by the side of our roa...
You've still not answered what is proper whether to capitalize or not. Besides Redbox other companies such as AT&T use lower case at&t on all their signage but whenever people write about the company it's always AT&T.
Capitalizing proper nouns...or not?
Josh wrote to me today: I work for Redbox, a new dvd company. Everywhere you see Redbox written from the company itself, it is written with a lower case “r.” Examples are plentiful on our website, redbox.com. I guess it’s sort of a creative, modern way of writing it. However, I was under the ...
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