You may well learn how to operate curve in 3DS in a day, but you certainly won't be good at it for a lot longer.
It took me three weeks of CG class to learn how to parent polygons to bones, inserting animations and smoothing them. I've forgotten pretty much all of it in the... three years I haven't animated anything.
We need those bus stops to be functioning. Actual bus that goes between them, with AI driver. If killed, a new one is built at nearest BE VF for 100 res.
If you make that in Hammer it counts against the map brush limit. Making it as a model is a lot better.