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    URBAN PAPER SERIES 2013

    PRIORITIZING PUBLIC TRANSIT FOR SPEED,

    RELIABILITY, AND RIDER SATISFACTION

    TONY MAZZELLA

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    2013 Te German Marshall Fund o the United States. All rights reserved.

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    GMF Paper Series

    Te GMF Paper Series presents research on a variety o transatlantic topics by sta, ellows, and partners o the German

    Marshall Fund o the United States. Te views expressed here are those o the author and do not necessarily represent the

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    About GMF

    Te German Marshall Fund o the United States (GMF) strengthens transatlantic cooperation on regional, national, andglobal challenges and opportunities in the spirit o the Marshall Plan. GMF does this by supporting individuals and institu-

    tions working in the transatlantic sphere, by convening leaders and members o the policy and business communities,

    by contributing research and analysis on transatlantic topics, and by providing exchange opportunities to oster renewed

    commitment to the transatlantic relationship. In addition, GMF supports a number o initiatives to strengthen democra-

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    Marshall Plan assistance, GMF maintains a strong presence on both sides o the Atlantic. In addition to its headquarters in

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    smaller representations in Bratislava, urin, and Stockholm.

    On the cover: A tram packed with commuters at peak time in Zurich.

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    April 2013

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    Seattle will need to

    employ an aggressive

    suite of transit priority

    measures along with

    the policy and political

    backing necessary

    to help win publicacceptance.

    its decision to funda county-wide bus

    system in 1972, and

    voter approval to

    join a four-county

    consortium to build

    a regional light rail

    system in 1996.

    However, for Seattle

    to develop a truly

    world-class transit

    system it must

    combine new initia-tives and strategies

    with greater inten-

    sity in pursuing

    ongoing transporta-

    tion improvements.

    Recent events

    have affirmed

    this belief. In the

    2013-15 city budget

    passed shortly after

    I returned from

    my travel fellow-

    ship, the Seattle City Council included $9 million

    for capital investments in the bus network and

    extensive planning and design work for all four

    high capacity transit corridors identified in the

    TMP. Since it is very costly to build streetcar and

    BRT lines and recent federal reforms to its transit

    funding programs are more supportive of in-city

    investments, Seattle will be competing in the future

    for federal funds to help plan and build these

    streetcar and BRT lines.

    To achieve these investments and to make theseinvestments result in transit service that is fast and

    reliable, Seattle will need to employ an aggressive

    suite of transit priority measures along with the

    policy and political backing necessary to help win

    public acceptance.

    Therefore, it was a highly opportune time to inves-tigate how two European cities similar to Seattle

    in their commitment to public transit Munich,

    Germany, and Zurich, Switzerland have devel-

    oped public transit systems that have become the

    envy of much of the world. The excellence of these

    transit systems is regularly mentioned in the profes-

    sional literature, and few cities have done more

    to connect public transit with sustainable urban

    growth.5

    My research objectives were to learn how Munich

    and Zurich implemented comprehensive transitpriority on the policy, community, and technical

    5 For example, in 2010, a study carried out by the Universityof Stuttgart concluded that Munich had the best public transitsystem of the 23 European cities ranked for travel times, oppor-tunities to make connections, customer information, and ticketprices.

    Seattle Center City neighborhood

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    Seattle has already accomplished in making

    transit more productive, efcient, and effective

    has been impressive. In 2006, Seattle voters ap-

    proved a transportation levy that included several

    million dollars for roadway projects to improve

    bus performance. In 2007, Seattle opened its

    rst modern streetcar line in the fast-growing

    Center City neighborhood of South Lake Union,

    and in 2011, the city began construction of a

    second streetcar line to connect several Center

    City neighborhoods. The total construction cost

    for these streetcar lines is almost $200 million.

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