I totally disagree. We don't need mass transport to deal with pollution, we need transportation that doesn't rely on fossil fuels. Personally I view mass tran

I totally disagree. We don't need mass transport to deal with pollution, we need transportation that doesn't rely on fossil fuels. Personally I view mass transport as the stop gap to deal with the fact that cars really suck today. Mass transport will never be optimal because (a) it is mass transport, which means sharing space with a bunch of (potentially sick) strangers and (b) the bigger the group the less common the final location. A car can go exactly from point A to point B but a train can only go between stations. Every change between train (city-to-city) to tram/bus (location within city) is wasted time, as is every tram/bus stop that you don't use. In my perfect world we would get rid of mass transport and just have a sort of network of cars. Most trips people take are planned well in advance so you could schedule when you want to leave, walk outside and step into the car that's waiting there for you, kick back and wait to be let out at the door of where ever it is you're going. The car wont need to park because when it's done with you it goes for the next person. Something like this would be much more efficient than mass transport that has to just keep on making the same trips regardless of how many or how few people are using it at those times because people might need to use it.