Milwaukee County’s BRT line will use reserved lanes for more than half of its route, with traffic signals adjusted to minimize time at red lights, say David Locher, a transit system staffer and Dan Basile, the system’s chief operations officer.
What’s so special about BRT? “With the right features, BRT is able to avoid the causes of delay that typically slow regular bus service, like being stuck in traffic and queuing to pay on board,” explains the New York-based Institute for Transportation Development and Policy, which sets BRT standards. But President Donald Trump personally announced approval of $40.9 million in federal funding for the $54.8 million BRT line, tweeting it would be “bringing modern transit to the region’s most critical corridor and millions in economic development.” Republican opposition doomed proposals for a full-scale light rail system, shrinking it to the city streetcar line now called The Hop. Starting in 2022, a BRT line will run between Downtown Milwaukee and Wauwatosa’s Milwaukee Regional Medical Center campus.īRT comes with neither as steep a price tag nor partisan controversy as light rail. The next big thing for local commuters will be “light rail without the rail.” That’s how one Milwaukee County Transit System official describes the enhanced bus service officially known as bus rapid transit (BRT).
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