'Next Exit for Transportation's Future' is Generally Banal

Bicycles and buses turn out to be the principal theme. Alexandra Lange finds a "disconcerting sameness" among the strategies.

"Dedicated bus lanes and bike lanes turn up in almost every example, along with linear parks and landscaped boulevards, street-level retail, highways sunken and disappeared. But can BRT really always be the answer?"

She finds the reasoning behind many of the proposals confused and often "there's no sense that they are more than paper architecture."