The exact same guy did Raleigh’s bus network & BRT redesign!
But Houston has a pretty high-ridership light rail system, too, notably the line that… connects downtown to the medical center. And for longer trips like Clayton to RTP (a commute that, sadly, lots of people do), we’d be remiss to ignore the traffic-free ROW that already exists through the center of the region.
I hope it doesn’t come to this, but in Pittsburgh the highest-ridership busway route is a bus road that runs in a rail ROW, next to existing freight tracks: