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The success of bus rapid transit

Bus rapid transit — BRT — is expanding in cities across the country, showing that it’s possible to improve public transportation without rail lines or subways, which are more expensive and complicated to build.

Host Peter O’Dowd talks to Here & Now‘s transportation analyst Seth Kaplan about some BRT success stories and how they can be a model for other urban areas.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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