Bus Rapid Transit – Suisman Urban Design

First Bus Rapid Transit Line for San Antonio, Texas

Suisman Urban Design will provide conceptual architectural and graphic design concepts for what would be the first Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line in San Antonio, Texas. The team is being led by the Houston office of Lockwood Andrews & Newman, a subsidiary of Leo A Daly. The team also includes Nelson/Nygaard and Ximenes & Associates. The study for the corridor is expected to lead to a $30 million transit investment along the “Northwest Corridor”, primarily on Fredericksburg Road. The client is the San Antonio–Bexar County Metropolitan Planning Organization.

Urban Design and Transportation Course at UCLA

In December 2003, Anastasia Likaitou-Sideris, chair of the Urban Planning department at UCLA, invited Doug Suisman to teach a course on Urban Design and Transportation. Suisman focused the 10-week seminar on Bus Rapid Transit and Transit-Oriented Development. 33 graduate planning students took the class.