This is pretty common in America, now. Here in Atlanta, MARTA stops at Sandy Springs but there's a right-of-way that could very easily have extended it all the way up Fulton County, through Roswell and Alpharetta. That would have made a rush-hour trip to the airport something like 45 minutes instead of 75-90 mins (or more). Voters rejected the rail expansion and went with BRT instead. So now Fulton County is also spending north of $2 billion for dedicated bus lanes that will be built above Route 400 and will just dump everyone at the Sandy Springs MARTA station anyway, where they'll have to transfer to rail or local bus service.
It makes no sense. No one is ever going to ride the bus. But we're such a car-centric and anti-public transportation society in general that we keep building crap like BRT that no one wants, even though it's very expensive, because we can do that without a 1 penny sales tax increase. Foolish.