Sounds like the author just doesn't believe that good public transit matters. He works for the Cato Institute and wrote books about "the futility of government

Sounds like the author just doesn't believe that good public transit matters. He works for the Cato Institute and wrote books about "the futility of government planning"? Yeah, it shows - this article is basically just "how to tell if your transportation project is ideologically correct according to a strictly Randian worldview", and that world sounds like a pretty depressing place to live.