Swap car and bus in that sentence, and it's still a good argument. Anyway. My old boss Eric Carlsen had a degree in City Planning. His thesis was modelling LA

Swap car and bus in that sentence, and it's still a good argument. Anyway. My old boss Eric Carlsen had a degree in City Planning. His thesis was modelling LA with busses running on every major cross-street on 15-minute schedules, and funding it with a gas tax. Ridership would be low at first, but as folks came to prefer busses over cars it could change. The thing was, at ever stage of adoption it was a better system than we have now. Less congestion; less cost per-capita and so on. So we can make up excuses for 'everybody needs a car' but we can also do the numbers.