This July, the 28th Southern African Transport Conference in Pretoria was the place where experts, specialists, interest groups and transport users met to discuss the state of sustainable transport, road safety and transport engineering in the country, and consider the way forward.
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The decade since the launch of TransMilenio in Bogotá has produced BRT projects around the globe, mainly in the developing world. Although the main features of BRT are clearly defined, many of them should not be copied and will not work in all cases, write GERMÁN LLE RAS and LILIANA PEREIRA, who
worked on the TransMilenio project at its inception.
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Spent wisely, a ‘bailout’ could be used to create more sustainable and equitable cities of the future; misused, this money could be spent locking the world’s 6.6 billion people into a long-term dependence on oil and private cars and speeding the planet toward climate change’s tipping point.

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Two BRT routes, which started in early 2006, serve passengers between areas where there are a number of large companies and schools. Articulated buses (24m bi-articulated buses, the Volvo 7500), which can carry 165 passengers, leave every five minutes during peak hours.

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