The transportation we need

Romance of the Rails

From The Antiplanner:

“Urban transit was developed for a kind of city that no longer exists,” says an op-ed in USA Today, “one in which most jobs were downtown and most residents lived near downtown.” 

For people who can’t or don’t want to drive, ride hailing makes much more sense than mass transit, so we should be happy to see transit (and the taxes we pay to subsidize it) decline...

...instead of trying to “perpetuate obsolete transit systems,” cities should prepare “for the transportation technology that people actually use. Whether electric- or petroleum-powered, shared or owned, human-driven or computer-driven, that means automobiles” and, in the case of intercity rail, buses and airplanes...