Quote Originally Posted by professorscott View Post

4. Completely separated ROW for either BRT or light rail. Each of these is exactly as fast as the other. You can't do this along a roadway [[or, to be precise, I've never seen it done); this is done when a completely separate infrastructure pathway is created, as for instance by using abandoned freight ROW.

Buses and trains are equally fast.
Where? Cite existing example, please.

This claim gets thrown around a lot. Yet I've never seen a shred of evidence to support it.