Bus Rapid Transit: Can Faster Buses Solve Transit Woes of a Crowded City?

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Andrea Bernstein, Steven Dudley & Dan Moulthrop "Bus Rapid Transit: Can Faster Buses Solve Transit Woes of a Crowded City?"

Five Parts: Bogota, Cleveland, Bogota (Two-Way with Former Bogota Mayor Enrique Penalosa), Los Angeles (Two-Way with LAMTA San Fernando Valley GM Richard Hunt), New York City. Total Running Time 28: 15
Air Dates: May 21, May 28 (Morning) , May 28, June 10, June 18

Reported by Andrea Bernstein, Steven Dudley and Dan Moulthrop, Edited by Andrea Bernstein

Description: While Americans struggle to find inexpensive, carbon-friendly ways to move around people and goods, third world nations are already experimenting with innovative methods to get to work, shop, and recreate. In this series on the international transportation innovation Bus Rapid Transit, correspondents Andrea Bernstein, Dan Moulthrop and Steven Dudley took a critical look at what works, what doesn't, and why, bringing in not only policy experts but the voices of transit users around the globe. This series does what public radio should do at its best — explores new ideas, incorporates diverse voices, plumbs the complexity beneath an issue, and gets the populace thinking about new solutions to 21st century problems

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