Personal vs Mass Transit
... Mass Transit advocates disclose the impossible, to REPLACE roads and cars with mass transit. Thats impossible for the reason that of simple economics, and because of overwhelming (95%) personal preference for roads and cars. ... Many critics for several years defended roads and cars on different mediums against what they perceive as terribly misguided and destructive attempts of mass transit advocates to do the impossible, to REPLACE roads and cars with mass transit. Thats impossible because of simple economics (they cost the governments 20 to 40 times more per unit transportation), and because of overwhelming (95%) personal preference for roads and cars. ... And mass transit can and never will solve that problem in most of the modern cities. ... Thats not in any way a slap at mass transit. ... But fortunately, transit adequacy has not suffered in the last 20 years the way roads have. With the unsystematic change of the price of the bus fairs and the certain “un-certainties” of bus usage related to safety and accessibility cause people to use mass transport less and less.