While trying to score the Madison Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) design by the ITDP rubric, one must assess whether Madison Street is a top ten corridor for transit. I didn’t have a good answer off the bat. Intuitively, it seemed other corridors clearly have busier buses, but they are also longer. Adjusting for length by calculating ridership per mile brings perhaps offers a fairer comparison.
For Madison Street, it might be a bit of a photo finish, but it would snag the tenth spot in my list. If a portion of Route 11 and Route 60 were included, it’d do even better. But the 11 mainly serves points east of the proposed BRT line and the 60 only uses Madison briefly as it heads north/south.
