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Old February 8th, 2010, 09:20 PM
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I got about 50 seconds into that video, and then they said something like BRT "moves more passengers than a subway, and in a much more pleasant manner" and instantly lost all credibility. Steel wheels on rails always provide a pleasanter ride than rubber tires on asphalt, you can't hitch extra cars to the back of a bus, and grade separation is always more efficient.

Also, I'm not sure Colombia is exactly who we want to be emulating. How about Germany? France? Austria? Someplace that's not in the middle of a 50-year civil war fueled by drug cartels?
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