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Get ready for more buses, quicker connections, and expect your ride to come by faster once bus rapid transit (BRT) hits London streets.

It may be news to the regular bus riders who make 23 million trips a year in the city, some of whom have fretted about how the contentious $500-million BRT network will help those who don’t live or ride along the system’s main routes.

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But even though the divisive BRT project is far from a sure thing under a newly-elected and divided city council, half of whom campaigned against it in the recent election, officials are moving ahead to lace the largest infrastructure project in the city’s history to the rest of its transit system.

The London Transit Commission Wednesday approved the post-2019 framework for the city’s transit system at its evening meeting, a plan that highlights changes coming to non-rapid routes to pump up the frequency, cut overlap with BRT, and link it together into one cohesive network.