Originally Posted by
Bham1982
Nerd, serious misuse of stats.
Population is at an all-time peak, and grows robustly, on an annual basis. Public transit usage [[as a %) is near an all-time low. Yes, transit is growing overall [[by n, not %), but is badly trailing population growth.
Auto trip growth, every year, increases market share. Public transit growth, every year, decreases market share. That's the real story.
Yes, there are some positive signs and exceptions, but you can't extrapolate positive outliers to auto-centric, population stagnant Metro Detroit.