Oklahoma City is receiving a federal grant to develop a bus rapid transit line between downtown and the northwest side, Mayor David Holt said Thursday.

"Sen. Jim Inhofe has just announced that OKC has received the $14.3M federal grant we applied for to construct OKC’s first Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line," Holt said on Twitter.

The line will follow N Classen Boulevard to the Northwest Expressway, and on to Meridian Avenue.

In layman’s terms, BRT is a mode of transit where a bus essentially mimics many of the attributes that make trains popular (but at a fraction of the cost). It’s the ideal transit method for several of our corridors, including this one. See a couple of renderings below... pic.twitter.com/38Kz1g1jys — Mayor David Holt (@davidfholt) December 6, 2018



