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Mallon: Six years later, speeding up San Jose transit is finally paying off
In 2019, I learned about transit signal priority — a technology that gives buses priority at intersections so they don’t sit at red signals unnecessarily. At the time, I was a 22-year-old college student who rode VTA every day and wished the buses would run faster. At the time, there was a lot of discussion in other cities about flashier, more expensive transit speed improvements, such as bus lanes and bus rapid transit. Those didn’t seem politically possible in San Jose at the time, but transit signal priority did. It didn’t take space away from cars, and it seemed like...
