Plans for a BRT system were first announced in 2009 and construction work started soon after in 2010. The BRT project was originally funded through a soft loan provided by the
Agence Française de Développement for $166 million directly to the
Greater Amman Municipality. Claims by the
House of Representatives and the Audit Bureau that the project is unfeasible led the government to halt construction and hire a foreign consultant to review the scheme in 2011. Construction on the project did not resume until 2015, when the House approved its revival. Amman benefits from a BRT or Bus Rapid Transit system for a variety of reasons, mostly to do with the environmental and traffic restrictions. The air quality of Amman was measured at almost 40 micrograms per cubic meter air in 2015 by the Global Ambient Air Pollution Database. This far exceeds the WHO guideline of 10 micrograms per cubic meter air, and due to transit being a primary factor in Greenhouse Gas emissions, targeting this sector is seen as being a possible solution. The current public transit situation in Amman is fairly poor, due to its multiple minibuses, large buses, service taxis, and yellow taxis which all operate on different schedules with no coordination between each other. Passengers on Amman streets frequently experience poor speeds at approximately 15 km/h during peak periods on public transit. This is coupled by average car speeds of 30-25 km/h going around the city, adjoined by generally poor parking conditions. ==Routes==