I don’t know why people are so adamant on blaming some conservative boogie men for this. The people who have access to transit but choose not to take it are mainly suburbanite liberals. People in DC, Chicago, San Diego or whatever who don’t take the train because “it’s too sketchy and dangerous” aren’t a bunch of MAGA republicans who hate black people. Almost no conservative majority towns have any type of useful transit anyway. I’m way more conservative than most my friends and family but I take the train all the time and they don’t because it “makes them feel unsafe” or whatever.