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There's need to clear the buildings on the right-hand side of this

It's would be better to do so.or replace them
^^I moved it to the Discussion Forum, Click here Transport (Discussions) ThreadMany of the previous posts in this thread have been deleted. Does anyone know why?
What do you mean?Earlier this year, I commented on the really slow progress of the Blue Line, and I am bumping this thread to ask this:
Why is a BRT Line sharing the exact same corridor with a rail mass transit line? I've never seen this anywhere else in the world. Anyone care to evaluate?
Jalan Jenderal Sudirman (the main avenue in Jakarta) will have both a Bus Rapid Transit line and a mass rail transit line along it starting in the Spring of 2019. Most of the first Jakarta MRT line will follow the entirety of Corridor 1 of the TransJakarta BRT system (spanning between Jakarta Kota Station and Blok M Bus Terminal).What do you mean?
Still don’t get it. Given your Jakarta examples, why the “why”? :uh:Jalan Jenderal Sudirman (the main avenue in Jakarta) will have both a Bus Rapid Transit line and a mass rail transit line along it starting in the Spring of 2019. Most of the first Jakarta MRT line will follow the entirety of Corridor 1 of the TransJakarta BRT system (spanning between Jakarta Kota Station and Blok M Bus Terminal).
*Sigh* Look, I have no other answer to give you about this. I think the BRT line along the median of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway should have been scrapped and the corridor should have just the MRT line. If you had built just the BRT line in that median instead of the MRT, that wouldn't have been enough in the long term for a city with the density of Lagos. I'm asking, whose bright idea was it to put a BRT line and a metro line in the exact same corridor?Still don’t get it. Given your Jakarta examples, why the “why”? :uh:
*Sigh* Look, still don't get it :lol: - as there is NO BRT lane in the median of the Badagry Expressway.*Sigh* Look, I have no other answer to give you about this. I think the BRT line along the median of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway should have been scrapped and the corridor should have just the MRT line. If you had built just the BRT line in that median instead of the MRT, that wouldn't have been enough in the long term for a city with the density of Lagos. I'm asking, whose bright idea was it to put a BRT line and a metro line in the exact same corridor?
generally BRT line will have more stops than metro line. for short distances, it will be more convenient to commute via BRT.*Sigh* Look, I have no other answer to give you about this. I think the BRT line along the median of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway should have been scrapped and the corridor should have just the MRT line. If you had built just the BRT line in that median instead of the MRT, that wouldn't have been enough in the long term for a city with the density of Lagos. I'm asking, whose bright idea was it to put a BRT line and a metro line in the exact same corridor?
Well, what else can I do or say to make you "get it"? You are really upsetting me right now. The reason for my "angst" is that I already said that a Bus Rapid Transit network will not be enough in the long term as the population of the Lagos area continues to grow. I am not going to say/explain the same things to you over and over again. If you're going to bully/upset me about this, then you're better off just staying off this thread and let other users have their input on the BRT issue. Doesn't change the fact that I still wish the progress of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway reconstruction were faster.*Sigh* Look, still don't get it :lol: - as there is NO BRT lane in the median of the Badagry Expressway.
The BRT lanes are outside of the rail lanes and it has its own bus stops (which are shorter apart than the rail stations). However, it has some of those bus stops are at the same points as the rail stations, so that someone who wants to get on the train can almost seamlessly transfer at such stops. In effect, if a commuter is just going up a few hundred meters on the Badagry Expressway, he would not have to hop onto the train to do so (for starters, one would expect that buses would come along more frequently than the trains).
Nonetheless, given your earlier assertion that the "Jalan Jenderal Sudirman (the main avenue in Jakarta) will have both a Bus Rapid Transit line and a mass rail transit line along it," still don't quite get your apparent angst at a similar concept here in Africa.
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