Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Showcase
Innovation Towards Integrated
Bus Rapid Transit
HRM’s proposal for a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system was selected as one of eight cities to receive funding under the Urban Transportation Showcase Program. The $13.3 million project will establish two Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) corridors from the Sackville and Cole Harbour areas to downtown Halifax. These corridors will be equipped with transit priority traffic signals and queue jump lanes, allowing transit to have a competitive edge over vehicular traffic at certain signalized intersections.
For further information, please contact the Project Manager via e-mail.
The Urban Transportation Showcase Program
The Urban Transportation Showcase Program is a five-year program created to demonstrate, evaluate and promote effective strategies to reduce GHG emissions from urban transportation. Through this program, Transport Canada will work in partnership with provinces and municipalities, to establish a number of transportation "showcases" in selected cities, for demonstrating and evaluating a range of urban transportation strategies within a broad planning framework. The impacts of these strategies on other urban challenges (such as smog reduction, congestion, infrastructure costs) will also be evaluated. This new information will lay a foundation for the adoption of effective, integrated GHG emission reduction strategies in urban centres across Canada by 2010.
For more information, please see the UTSP website.
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