it's really annoying to read 2 conflicting accounts, the one in the article and yours, on ridership... the article makes it appear as if people voted for measur

it's really annoying to read 2 conflicting accounts, the one in the article and yours, on ridership... the article makes it appear as if people voted for measure M in the hopes "that the rest would start using publiic transport" to have less traffic congestion in their cars. Considering your karma I am more inclined to believe you than the article. But even if the article were correct: it suggests that people in the cars don't mind if money is spent to persuade people to use public transport, perhaps a system can be set up such that gas taxes are levied and used to sponsor people to use public transit? Without the price of the ticket going negative of course, but arbitrarily low until congestion is tolerable? Of course if both the roads and public transit vehicles are congested, then Measure M was simply not successfully executed or planned, as it promised to ease congestion...