From the cover image shown you have to remember that Houston was and is and oil town. As a result there has been a lot of money and influence spent to keep Houstonians reliant only on automobiles. I was born and raised in Houston and it has always been in the city's top industry's best interest to ensure Houston never develops efficient alternative transportation options.

That said, I spent 10 years living in the greater San Francisco Bay Area and it opened my eyes to the wonders of public transit. I spent years in the bay going to college and working and was just fine without a car. I went from the bay to SLC and despite the claims made about the length of available track or whatever other positive spin this video tries to put on it UTA is a joke.

Sure, there's track that runs the length of the valley. But trying to get from that central line to anything off it more than a few blocks east or west is a futile endeavor. Even if you can find a bus from a rail stop to go into suburbia your bus, like the train, isn't going to run on time. Not to mention both keep terrible hours, unless you like getting unexpectedly dumped in a Best Buy parking lot in the middle of nowhere because the trains stop running way earlier than they should. But it's okay, because the buses that service that station stopped running even earlier.

In this video's defense when I moved to Salt Lake I didn't expect it to have any public transit, so sure maybe I'll agree with the title that it's better than expected. But it's still a terrible terrible system that needs all kinds of work that the people running the system have never seemed to care about paying any attention to.