This "light BRT" that the author suggests is just stripped-down BRT. If you do your BRT too light, it just becomes another bus with a different paint job. The cost control issues in North America keep getting in the way of great transit, where a line that should be a metro is light rail, a light rail line becomes BRT, and so on. As always, there is but one reason behind high transit construction costs:
This "light BRT" that the author suggests is just stripped-down BRT. If you do your BRT too light, it just becomes another bus with a different paint job. The cost control issues in North America keep getting in the way of great transit, where a line that should be a metro is light rail, a light rail line becomes BRT, and so on. As always, there is but one reason behind high transit construction costs: