Re: Deeply in love with automobile culture, July 11.

Don Marks seems to be as confused as others are in his inability to distinguish between LRT (light rail transit) and BRT (bus rapid transit). He enthusiastically describes his experience with LRTs in Princeton, N.J., where one parked in an ample lot, bought a coffee and a bagel, and read the newspaper as one travelled the rail to Penn Station.

Marks says that Winnipeg is not psychologically ready for an LRT, then describes what our transportation system should look like in Winnipeg by suggesting that the railway tracks along Regent Avenue and Pembina Highway be removed and replaced by a four-lane thoroughfare used exclusively by buses. This would be nothing more than a BRT, which would not change the automobile mentality of Winnipeg whatsoever as LRTs have in cities like Calgary, because, as I have said before -- a bus is a bus!