The sustainable urban development in Southern Countries like Jordan raises the issue of its adaptation to a context that highly differs from the cities in northern countries, at the environmental, social and political levels.. This article tackles this issue by analyzing the new transportation system based on the building of a Bus Rapid Transit whose efficiency has already proved in Brazil and in others emerging countries. It examines how the conditions in which such policies development can arise, spread and meet with local needs, knowing that it has to deal with both global issues and delicate political and economic contexts.