No, car companies didn't kill mass transit, Americans love of freedom did. I'd rather do things on my schedule than have to deal with mass transit schedule. Car companies had a stake in mass transit, GM made LOTS of buses.

With your statement regarding "rail connectivity" and "density" - I'm confused. Are you harkening back to the days when rail was KING, as in the days of Diamond Jim Brady (an interesting character if ever there was one)? You mean before the average American could afford a car and before the nation was smart enough to lay out a system of roads? By the way, wasn't the density back then ALOT less than we have now? Like my grandmother who lived on Powell two blocks up from 52nd. The 'city' stopped at 52 and my grandmother's nearest neighbors for almost 20 years were over a mile away - you mean THAT density?

Nice try with that 'certainty' line, sorry, I've neither drank the Kool-Aid nor had the lobotomy so I'm still immune to the vortex. I know that the ONLY reason developers develop around light rail is because the government heavily subsidizes them - remember, I work construction and I'm very much in touch with builders and developers.

Thanks but I'll keep watching the vortex swallow up the city, some of us need to try to warn others that they are about to fall off a cliff; it doesn't always work, but at least I'm trying.