I've been living in Tokyo for about a year and a half, and I've been in a car maybe 4 times since then. Public transportation is incredible, when done right. W

I've been living in Tokyo for about a year and a half, and I've been in a car maybe 4 times since then. Public transportation is incredible, when done right. When I lived in NYC, I rarely used cabs, lyft or uber. The reason it isn't done right in most of the US is because people think it needs to make a profit. That leads to it being underfunded, which means it doesn't run often enough, and doesn't have enough coverage, which leads to lower ridership, which leads to people like you complaining that we're wasting so much money on terrible service. Stop thinking of public services as companies.