The problem with private corporations is they typically are after profits, and the best way to lose profits is to provide under-served communities with the same

The problem with private corporations is they typically are after profits, and the best way to lose profits is to provide under-served communities with the same services you use for wealthier ones. If you want to make money, you need to focus on where the most people with the most money live, and let the poor and inconveniently located flounder in their ghettos of transportation isolation. Which is where we are today. We already have private mass transit, in the form of bus and shuttle companies, and we had it in the form of trains. The trains collapsed and the government bailed it out as Amtrak. The buses basically only serve pockets of commuters who don't drive, and the companies may receive subsidies. I don't see why you think the government is standing in the way. The way is just not profitable (or in the case of contracted companies, sometimes a little too profitable)