[wahsd]

So much rationalization and excuse making. Surprise, people don't like being forced on some institution's schedule, forced to ride with strangers without any kind of standards or code of conduct or even just personal safety measures, and they don't like paying essentially just as much as driving a car and they don't like it taking twice as long to get from point A to point B by going through points D, E, and T.

It's really not rocket science, yet the cult of public transportation that holds on to parameters and variables that made sense in the late 19th and early 20th century simply cannot seem to internalize new information.

Whenever this issue comes up I feel like I'm in that scene in Idiocracy where the presidential cabinet's response is a circular logic of "plants crave Brawndo, because Brawndo has electrolytes, what plants crave" (or something to that effect).

Surprise, people, sane people don't want things that are worse that an alternative that is better in many different ways.