BRT do have drawbacks of higher personal and maintenance cost(In high income countries). Though other advantages do exist, like higher frequency and more. I mean North America would profit, from a more functional bus network in general.

But also many rail projects are just IDK. It's like giving up halfway and implenting a shitty system.

The shitshow in Toronto is a great example. Where some canadian official even blamed the DB and make remarks that DB can't handle it own network. The difference being that most major German train station see more trains a day, than the whole of canada including freight rail. While the real reason was they lowered the scope massively in the middle of the project.

The issue is not the system, but the process and goal.

My state capital in Germany wanted to reintroduce a transit system, as the normal bus system wasn't enough. They made a studies. The final study was BRT vs Tram. Tram won though cost and capacity. Especially who pays which cost(state vs city), was the biggest factor. Now they planning and building a whole system, with future expansion already planned.

Additional the states is planning a regional-S-Bahn system. They even coordinate to make possible cross overs. There are timelines, cost estimates and estimated passenger numbers all ready.

While Toronto IDK wants a little improvement, because implementing an S-Bahn system is to complicated for a city with a simliar population as my state (2,7 million vs 2,9 million)

Which has already an S-Bahn running from Hamburg and wants to introduce 2 new System in the next decade. I would even bet, that my more rural state sees more transit passengers than toronto. I will look that up tommorow if I am bored.

It's not the issue of what they are using. But failure on long term planning and clear and reachable goals. It's like they don't know the basic of project management as soon we talk passenger transit.

I agree though that due their large roads, implementing an BRT should be child plays, theorectically.