High quality, super-expensive (think quality, cleanliness, secure) public transit that requires higher taxation and therefore reduces the incentive to do busine

High quality, super-expensive (think quality, cleanliness, secure) public transit that requires higher taxation and therefore reduces the incentive to do business there, maybe. If you want to burn some public money you could subsidize electric cars for a long time at a fraction of the cost of the kind of stuff you need. As someone living in a third world country in a city where (cheap) public transit is the norm, I can tell you that faster than private cars/taxis it is not; hell, Uber arriving here was a nice uplift to my lifestyle at a price I could justify ponying up for.