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Professor: The point of the Cato article was not to do away with public transit in the form of buses and mini-buses, but to avoid expensive rail infrastructure projects which become massive money...

A less rosy look at public transit, its costs, and its future:

https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/coming-transit-apocalypse

How about this for the metro area?

http://www.epictimes.com/05/27/2016/china-teb-tunnel-bus/

No, but only the feds can go ruinously in debt. Detroit is just emerging from bankruptcy and the state is drawn tight. They don't have the financial flexibility to be "Keynesian".

To be Keynesian, you have to be able to print money. Michigan and Detroit can't do that.

Never blame malignity for a result that can be adequately explained by incompetence.

While fuel tax as a percentage of the price would help, gasoline has been subject to wild price swings while the cost of building and maintaining roads and highways has increased at a very steady...

I would interpret the term "user fees" as you paying $40 for your ride.

Different transit systems in the US have widely varying ratios as to the extent of how much their costs are covered by the...

It costs money. Nothing is free. It will cost one hell of a lot less to put up half a dozen or even a dozen pedestrian bridges than to replace one of the vehicular bridges they are removing. The...

We are going to four lanes which is 48 feet plus a 4 foot inside shoulder and an 8 foot outside shoulder which is a sixty foot maximum clear span from one pier to another with two people abreast at...

So if we have a pedestrian bridge [[which are relatively cheap) every couple of blocks over the freeway, we can widen it without the pearl clutchers getting their panties in a wad?

Someone wrote a book on the mathematics of that phenomenon called "Why Do Buses Run in Threes?"

Everybody loves warm, comfortable, and convenient trains [[with on-board wi-fi and stations full of little boutiques and eateries).

Edna needs a train to get her from her home at Mack and Chalmers...