Light Rail or Bus Rapid Transit? The very question that can polarise even the most staunch urbanists in trying to create a better city and a better urban environment? But does it need to be this way? NO it certainly does not. Light Rail or LRT and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) are both very useful mass transit tools moving mass amounts of people from A to B (okay here come the A2B puns with Airport to Botany Rapid Transit) efficiently and without the need for large urban road ways. Both BRT and LRT are medium distance movers (so say up to 20km after which heavy rail becomes more viable for someone wanting to traverse the entire line such as Papakura to Britomart) and efficient at moving people short or those medium distances. In the end though what are the differences between the two? The two differences is capacity (LRT moves more) and amenity (you can “green” LRT but can not with BRT) - voakl.net