Rick, labeling arguments and thinking shallow does not make them so. You misunderstand the difference between rail and the bus system. Nearly every person on the island stands to benefit from the bus because of the proliferation of routes. Only a select few will benefit from rail.

Beside that, your arithmetic is wrong.

I count four distinct commenters on this thread who have taken oppositional stances, six who lean toward support, and five who are neutral or present entirely different arguments.

On Katelynn's post, which is decidedly well composed and well argued, I count seven distinct commenters who question her arguments, two who lean toward support, and three who are neutral or present entirely different arguments.

That's a 6-4-5 vs. 2-7-3 record. Comment threads decide nothing, but if that's the metric you want to use to adjudicate this debate, you lose.