To figure out why, the researchers did site visits and interviews of BRTS users. Figure 3 shows a street that is not very wide, covered by trees and there are many shops along the street. Many people walk while shopping on that street each day. People interviewed there said they like to walk on that street and they don’t really feel tired, even when they walk a long distance. That is the place where people walk up to 900 meters to come to use the BRTS.
Figure 4 shows another place where there are a very wide elevated road, a narrow and poorly maintained sidewalk, and very few trees. No one interviewed there said they’d like to walk on that street. That is the place even those who live only 100 meters away from the BRTS would not come to use the BRTS.