Some links I've seen promulgated recently

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Communities Learn the Good Life Can Be a Killer

Cars Kill Cities

Both are filled with comments along the lines of "Public transportation in my area is terrible, therefore there is no possible way to make good public transportation, and if people wanted public transportation they'd take it instead of driving cars, so clearly they don't."

Aside from the fact that you can't buy what they don't sell (so you can't switch to good bus service if your area is invested in the idea that this is impossible and nobody wants it anyway), you have to love the narrow little assumption that because this person or that one hasn't seen something, it can't exist. You just want to pat them on their little heads! Twits.

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And there's a vicious cycle involved with the latter: people don't use transit in Georgia because it's not reliable, it's infrequent, its service area is limited, and it's too expensive for what's actually offered. And the reason those are all the case is because there's not enough demand to justify them...

It's enough to make you wish for either peak oil or your own election as benevolent dictator....