02-26-2024, 08:14 AMhhh81 Wrote: And you would be very, very wrong.

I genuinely and unambiguously love public transit. I think one of the great crimes against our society and our well-being in the US is the choices our predecessors made to prioritize space for cars to the detriment of walkable cities and human community. If I were to run for public office (which will not happen at this point) my #1 goal would be expanding and reinforcing high speed rail infrastructure coast to coast.

When I hear public transit, I think of the years/decade of on and off bus/train commuting built as an afterthought in southeast Florida. I think of the drug deals going on 20 feet from cop cars at transit stations, bus benches that chronically smell like urine and trains chronically late from striking cars because "they could beat the train" and save 45 seconds. At one point, I was at a central transit hub and witnessed 50+ people flash mob around a motorcycle to get drugs. Took less than 2 minutes. I can't imagine a world without public transit existing, but I equally can't imagine what a good public transit system would actually look and feel like.