How much priority should the City of Cape Town give to public transport over private vehicles? Cape Town's new Integrated Rapid Transit (IRT) system borrows many lessons from Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems in South American cities, where leaders have in some cases been prepared to limit the space available for private vehicles in order to build bus lanes. The assumption was that this would be balanced out as more people used public transport and left their cars at home. The City of Cape Town … [Read more...]