SWIFT, YET SAFE: Suspension Monorail can exceed road speed limits, regardless of what is happening to traffic below. It can do this even if road traffic is at a standstill because of accident, emergency, or road maintenance. For Suspension Monorail, the journey from Wellington Railway station to airport (with 11 stops) is estimated to take only 20 minutes. See our map for details of this route   In Japan, the Chiba Urban Flyer (12 km, with 18 stops) regularly achieves 20 minutes. Yet Sydney ‘Light Rail’, over a similar 12 km distance (with only 14 stops), was as bad as 50 minutes in December 2019 and struggles with plans to reduce this just to 40-45 minutes [sic]. CONVENIENT: SM can provide an aboveground link for pedestrians exiting or entering the Wellington Regional Stadium, while also tidily linking (via lifts and escalators) with the main rail network at the Wellington Central railway station.   SPORTS VENUES: SM can similarly provide stations opposite the Kilbirnie Oval, and the Sports Stadium in Evans Bay, leapfrogging over congested road traffic on Wellington Road & Cobham Drive. MIRAMAR DIRECT ACCESS: From there, SM can link directly with the Miramar shops via the Cutting (which is too narrow for other forms of rapid transit solution without major - perhaps impossible - excavation to widen it). COMFORTABLE BOARDING: SM’s overhead stations can provide shelter, ticketing, and tagging-on prior to boarding, thus speeding up passenger flow, instead of requiring passengers to queue in the rain on crowded pavements. FAVOURED ROUTES: SM can make use of narrow streets without diverting other traffic - so has wider choices of routes (including the Golden Mile) – whereas trams/’Light Rail’ would have to deviate to existing wide roads; dig tunnels; or create wider roads by demolishing buildings.   I’m sorry, what was that you said about ground-based rapid transit doing the same things more simply?