Madison: Mendota Street

As part of the Madison line A BRT-lite project, Madison Metro installed a modal filter to create a shortcut for its A line in the Northeastern suburbs. The BRT line departs its main routing along Washington Ave/Highway 151 to serve Madison College on Anderson Street. To rejoin the alignment, the bus uses a short bus-only driveway between the fuel station’s access road and Mendota Street, a stub-end residential street. This solution allows buses to bypass a left turn on Washington Avenue between two busy arterials and return to the main alignment via a secondary intersection, where it’s easier to provide more aggressive signal priority.