TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Bus Rapid Transit systems are often sold as providing the speed and convenience of rail service without the cost and time required to construct a rail system.

That was evident on a recent Monday morning when one of Tulsa's Aero Bus Rapid Transit buses pulled up to a newly completed Aero bus station at the corner of Apache Street and Peoria Avenue.

There was no need to step up from the station platform to get onto the bus.

"Now, we can pull straight up to the station, not have to deploy a ramp in case you have a wheelchair," Liann Alfaro, planning and marketing director for...