• In
San Jose, the
Alum Rock-Santa Clara BRT line includes one mile of dedicated bus lanes along the seven-mile route, while plans for a second BRT route along El Camino saw the proposed dedicated bus lanes dropped before the project itself was eventually cancelled. • In
Portland, dedicated lanes were scrapped early in the planning process, while the BRT label was kept. • In
Delhi, after the BRT opened in 2012, an activist filed a lawsuit because the dedicated lanes took away space from cars. A judge in the Delhi High Court ordered that general traffic was to be allowed in BRT lanes, though this was reversed. • In
New York City and
East Lansing, plans for physically separated lanes were discarded in favor of curbside lanes to reduce cost. • In
Boston, the
Silver Line has a high frequency service and BRT brandng, but lacks dedicated lanes except for the Silver Line Way and Washington St. • In
San Francisco, the
Van Ness Bus Rapid Transit project omits raised platforms for level boarding; station platforms will be built at standard sidewalk height instead. • In
Buenos Aires,
Argentina, the
Metrobus does not have level boarding, signal priority or off-board fare collection. • In the
Minneapolis/St. Paul region there are several routes marketed as BRT. One is the
METRO Red Line, which opened in 2013 between
Apple Valley, Minnesota and
Mall of America in the southern suburban region of
Minneapolis. This line has every 20 minute service, no off-board fare collection, and instead of a dedicated right-of-way, there are shoulder lanes that buses may use during traffic backups. Another route is the
A Line (Minnesota), between South Minneapolis and
Roseville, Minnesota. It also has no dedicated right-of-way, although headways are every 10 minutes and there is off-board fare payment. • In
Guangzhou,
China, authorities decided to open
GBRT lanes to mixed traffic during peak hours. • In
Metro Manila, the EDSA Busway served by the
EDSA Carousel does not offer off-board fare collection or level boarding with most of the stations being island platforms, and limited accessibility in many stations with no elevators nor ramps. Since 2024,
SM has begun upgrading some stops to have concourses, the design of which the
Department of Transportation is aiming to replicate across all stops. • In
Auckland,
New Zealand, the dedicated
Northern Busway only runs between Albany and Akoranga bus stations; services north to the Hibiscus Coast and south to the Auckland CBD operate in mixed traffic. Northern Busway services also use on-board fare collection (albeit with the contactless
AT HOP card). • In
Melbourne,
Australia, the
SmartBus network is labelled as a premium bus service, with four of the nine SmartBus routes marketed as
Doncaster Area Rapid Transit (DART). All nine SmartBus routes are run on shared roads, have on-board fare collection, lack level boarding, have limited traffic light priority, and service frequency (every 30 minutes on evenings and weekends). The bus lanes in
Lonsdale Street and
Hoddle Street are temporary, being shared with cars after 7PM and on weekends. • In
Memphis, Tennessee, mConnect is branded as BRT despite dedicated bus lanes being planned only along B.B. King Blvd. and Second St, less than 15% of the total planned route. • In
Austin, Texas, two routes marketed as BRT were introduced under the MetroRapid banner in 2014. Outside of a short stretch of transit-priority lanes shared by other local and commuter routes through Downtown, both the 801 and 803 operate in mixed traffic. Subsequent MetroRapid investments were included in
Capital Metro's Project Connect high-capacity transit plan as "Bus Rapid Transit Light"but which are now referred to in official documents simply as MetroRapid. • In
Tokyo, Japan, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government introduced the Tokyo BRT as the main transportation connecting the downtown and the bay area, including
Harumi Flag, the residential area converted from the former Tokyo 2020
Olympic Village. It was planned that dedicated bus lanes and full-featured stations with ticket machines are built. However, due to the
COVID-19 pandemic and inflation, most of the bids for the constructions were unsuccessful. Ultimately, only
Shimbashi Station was built with a roof, while simplified bus stops were built for other stops and the system has limited BRT features. • In
Indonesia, Deddy Herlambang, an domestic transportation observer, wrote that, many systems marketed as BRT lack the core features that distinguish true Bus Rapid Transit from regular bus services. Such as fully dedicated lanes, off-board fare collection within enclosed paid areas, and weather-protected stations. In many cases, stops consist only of a roadside bus stop sign due lack of funding. Of the 14 BRT corridors operated by
Transjakarta, all still lack fully segregated bus lanes in certain sections. Other systems, such as
Trans Semarang and
Trans Jogja, meet most BRT criteria but operate without dedicated bus lanes. • In
Porto,
Portugal, the
Metrobus by
Metro do Porto, Lines 1 (Boavista Avenue to
Praça do Império) and the extension, Line 2 to Anémona and
Castelo do Queijo, were originally going to be LRT services, but later, plans were scaled back to become a BRT line for the usage of a funding program made by the Portuguese government. ==See also==