Barring a radical change in governance, we should plan for US transit projects to play out how US transit projects have played out in the past, not indulge in t

Barring a radical change in governance, we should plan for US transit projects to play out how US transit projects have played out in the past, not indulge in the baseless fantasy that an American polity would suddenly do a system correctly. Inspiration is cheap. Disenfranchising the stakeholders who reliably mess things up is the real work.