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To start with, autos are
To start with, autos are subsidized much more than mass transit.
Care to offer substantiation for that claim? I found just the opposite in a reputable journal - see DebunkingPortland.com/Roads/Docs/Delucchi_Chart.htm
If both mass transit users and private auto users were forced to internalize the costs of their chosen transportation alternative, MT would win in a landslide, but I digress
Care to offer substantiation for that claim? I found just the opposite: DebunkingPortland.com/Transit/Cost-Cars-Transit(2005).htm
You are worried about where we are wasting our money but don't mention the massive human and financial sinkhole located in Iraq?
Since mass transit uses more energy than cars (per passenger-mile), how can mass transit help the Iraq situation?
DebunkingPortland.com/Transit/BusVsCarTEDB.htm
Thanks
JK