The two BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) lanes were painted red to insure that only buses would drive over them.

The view looking back along the BRT lanes on Van Ness Avenue toward Market Street. The two red lanes merged just past this intersection. And U-turns and Left-turns were prohibited.

The buses, running out the BRT lanes on Van Ness Avenue, were ordinary buses. Many BRT lines run custom buses on their BRT lines, whereas San Francisco's MUNI ran the same buses it ordinarily used everywhere else. Here a 49 Bus used the BRT lane.

A MUNI bus just pulled away from one of the new BRT stations along Van Ness Avenue.

Three buses used the BRT lanes. Two ran uphill toward Lombard Street (the terminus). A third ran downhill and toward the camera, and was about to stop at one of the new BRT Stations.

Painted signs on the red roadway indicated that these BRT lanes were for the exclusive use of MUNI and GGT (Golden Gate Transit), buses that served Marin County to the north.