I did find one here in Madison in the rotunda of the capitol.

And, unlike in Copenhagen, the land between those bodies of water is really hilly, too -- there's a reason BNSF hugs the sound going north.

"Zoning" is a plausible answer. Or "The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969."

I'm sorry we left you in the lurch.

Glad you made it! We know we have ghost bus issues and we're trying to fix them. And we're focusing on maintenance, which should reduce breakdowns.

It seems like a perfectly fair comparison to Finch West, though, which does not go downtown.

The relatively high speed on Portland here is because the Downtown segment -- with its closely spaced stations (plus, in the case of Portland, tight turns) is excluded.

They did turn it back on after everyone pushed back. This timing is definitely with the TSP on. I suspect the speed difference here has more to do with station spacing than TSP.

How does Houston have the shoddiest priority measures? It has genuine dedicated lanes the whole way and pretty robust traffic signal priority.

You could also do the thing SEPTA does in suburban operations and train every operator on bus and two completely different rail vehicles.

Recognizable in the morning by the steam fog.

Ice status.

In my experience the biggest reasons why agencies keep "unsuccessful" services running are (1) reluctance to admit failure (2) institutional inertia (3) the people in charge who supported the project when it was built still support it because their goal was never ridership. All those are local.