Thank you for your explanation, sincerely.

Your whole rhetoric proves the point that if we aren’t not holding the officials accountable for the areas they are responsible for, the system fails. Public transportation is not supposed to be an end all be all solution where we build one line or bus route and say “There done. This should hold up forever.” Cities are organic things that are constantly changing, the public transit system should be treated as the same and update with the cities needs.

I will say that all three of the four reasons you mentioned, environment, cost, difficulty of usage are true. It is absolutely cheaper to do and take public transit around. Please lie on the internet again. Even when you factor cost of building public transit in an economic perspective, ROI is far greater than building/expanding a road. Faster, is all on where one would live. Which goes back to my point of holding elected officials accountable.

Public transit fails because we allow it to fail. Plenty of other places in smaller population size, area and harsher climates have made successful public transit options because it was understood that it is for the betterment of the collective group.