Want to build a busway? The Transportation Planning Board can teach you how. This Spring the TPB released an impressive set of Bus Priority Treatment Guidelines intended to illustrate how to implement priority bus treatments such as dedicated running ways, signal priority, and enhanced stations.

The idea is partially to provide regional transportation planners and engineers with the technical details necessary to actually build such improvements, but also to provide politicians and laypeople with a visual tool box of potential bus improvements, so they know what to ask for.

If you’re interested in how streets might be improved to provide better bus service, these guidelines are a must read.