I now use Uber on the weekend to go out to dinner with my wife and never have to worry about whether I'm ok to have a second or third drink. If we go to a relat

I now use Uber on the weekend to go out to dinner with my wife and never have to worry about whether I'm ok to have a second or third drink. If we go to a relatively local restaurant I'm paying around $7 each way for the two of us. There's very little chance drunk (especially female) folks are going to ride public transport nor do they need to. I wish I could go find the article but a few months back I read that in LA lawyers specializing in defending drink driving cases have been decimated by Uber usage. Their case load is halving meaning the number of lawyers needed is halving. And that of course is a good thing in general. I'm a big big believer in public infrastructure. But I would never support another penny going into public transport now. Any sort of meaningful project started today would take 5 - 15 years to come to market. Small,medium and large electric vehicles summoned by a mobile device and wired to the network will be mainstream by then and much more efficient. They'll crash less (never) and always choose the optimum route. Private networks for the win here. The economics have changed.