The San Jose method seems pretty good. It seems like anytime you need to cross the rails, you will be doing it near perpendicular. It sounds like the plan for my hometown will be more like Little Rock's though. It will be going from the river, through town then up to the university. Coming from the university is a long steep hill. There are no wide roads up the hill, so I assume they will be just adding the tracks to the narrow lane. To widen the road would cost a lot of money, where they could. A lot of excavation of the hill would need to be done. Also this is kind of an older area and there is just no room to widen the roads without tearing down the houses.