I love public transit, when I was living in the Minneapolis / Saint Paul area I all most never used ride sharing apps, and used the metro every day to commute.

I love public transit, when I was living in the Minneapolis / Saint Paul area I all most never used ride sharing apps, and used the metro every day to commute. But those services aren't free. The MS/SP system is considered world class but they have a 30% farebox recovery ratio. It costs the public a lot of money to maintain that system. In Cincinnati, the public transit system is terrible. The buses don't run on schedule, our light rail route is incredibly short. I use ride sharing services here a lot more as a result. Even if we do move traffic into public transit systems, that isn't going to magically shrink the costs of DOT departments around the nation. We'll just be subsidizing something else.