I totally agree with you on the capacity standpoint. Door-to-train and train-to-door remain stubborn issues with "circuit" style transport systems though. I do

I totally agree with you on the capacity standpoint. Door-to-train and train-to-door remain stubborn issues with "circuit" style transport systems though. I don't live in either city, but I do live in a top-10 metro with the second largest subway system in the U.S. For me to get to the train system from my house is currently a 30-45 minute drive (there's a bus, but for "reasons" it's even worse). Stop-to-stop my ride is 40 minutes. To get from the nearest station to my work is a 50 minute walk or a half hour bus ride. My commute then using the best available mass transit is a little over 2 hours or 3 hours if I assume we live in a post-surface vehicle world. Even if I move my household to one of the single bedrooms built right next to the station, it's still over an hour door to door with half of it on a surface bus or most of it walking (and now it's 2 hours again). Ignoring all that mess, I can just drive and it's a 30-45 minute (the length of just the train leg) easy drive from my garage to my work's garage. So I can spend 4-6 hours a day taking mass transit, or I can spend 1-1.5 hours a day in a car. For what it's worth, I'm a huge proponent of mass transit and subways, and think the U.S. is pitifully behind in every way, I personally wish we engaged in the articles plan, and in many of the proposed mass transit and livable cities initiatives. But there are sometimes good reasons why people take cars over mass transit, even when it's as good as it gets where I live or in NYC and all of these plans are decades away from happening and changing things. The important thing is for stopgap ideas like cars not to get in the way of these kinds of improvements in they way that they have.