Either as a charitable overlay or a lifestyle option for the rich and middle class, our approach to transit is incoherent, providing often intolerably poor levels of service at ridiculously high cost. Transit antagonists can rightly point out that, in most instances, it would be cheaper to buy every transit rider a car than to build and operate transit systems the way we currently do. Proponents then rightly point out that auto-based transportation systems are heavily subsidized and do not pay their own way, either, as if somehow pointing out that hypocrisy makes the case for more unproductive
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