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Respectfully, the Hop and Skip in Boulder (as well as the Flatiron Flyer) aren't BRT - they are just plain old busses. A crucial part of BRT is dedicated lanes.

Don't get me wrong. I think transit here in Denver/Boulder is pretty good, but we don't have BRT (despite what RTD tells us).

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Yes, I suppose they do not have dedicated lanes but the "every ten minutes" model of frequent arrival (as opposed to running on a typical bus schedule) I think puts them more in the category of BRT ...

My other example - VelociRFTA in the Roaring Fork Valley (Glenwood to Aspen) also does not have dedicated lanes, but the state of CO and local agencies specifically refer to it as BRT ...

If "running every 10 minutes" model makes you a BRT, then that makes practically all (somewhat-)working high-frequency buses BRTs. I can give around 50 examples from Istanbul alone

Yeah, but not in America, which is what we are talking about. I used to live in San Diego and took buses that ran once an hour. A high frequency bus was one that ran every 30 minutes.

"Every 10 minutes" is a completely typical bus schedule, in the civilised world (greetings from London, or basically any European city of consequence). It's not BRT at all. There are Brazilian BRT lines which run vehicles every 60 seconds -- THAT is how BRT works.

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