Choice Moves Alternate Transport

In the public's mind the argument is often some glamorous [and hugely expensive] rail or light rail variant versus bus (stop-start, queue in traffic lane, shabby, noisy etc). However as a full time public transport dependent person I want frequency, multi-directional options, minimal transfer travel, doorstep to doorstep (or as close too) travel, which rail or light rail just can not deliver to a very wide area of any city, and especially not in our small dispersed low density NZ cities. Giving buses infrastructure support similar to rail - such as these underpassing trenches in Brisbane [below] - can take the best of both systems, particularly as bus technology is moving so fast (smaller quieter engines, hybrids, stabilisers, computer controlled acceleration and deceleration similar to trams or trolley buses are all rapidly developing technologies). Rail has a magic something, but when it comes to the crunch (day after day) I would much rather have a bus going my way every 5 minutes than a train every 15 minutes. And this is doubly so if it runs on smooth lanes, segregated corridors, and it means no need to transfer at either end, offering ultimately a much faster total journey times on distances under about 20km. Incidentally at peak times 297 buses an hour pass one point on the Brisbane system - one every 12 seconds - coming from multiple directions to feed smoothly into the central city area.