+10000000000 points for all this from a guy with a Masters in Urban Planning. Also, anyone interested in this should be reading the blog Human Transit. http:/

+10000000000 points for all this from a guy with a Masters in Urban Planning. Also, anyone interested in this should be reading the blog Human Transit. http://www.humantransit.org/ http://www.humantransit.org/ or buy his new book by the same name http://www.amazon.com/o/asin/1597269727 http://www.amazon.com/o/asin/1597269727. He focuses less on the differences between bus and light rail (unimportant distinction) and more on what it means to actually provide mobility that people can use. Rail vs bus is about as useful as emacs vs vi - fun for practitioners, useless for users that care about code or getting places in their life.