> Middle-class and rich people and companies don't need public transport, they have cars This I think misses the geometric constraint here: in particularly den

> Middle-class and rich people and companies don't need public transport, they have cars This I think misses the geometric constraint here: in particularly dense city centers, there isn't really room for cars. I'm fairly well-off and have a car in the city, but I wouldn't bother trying to drive it around here, because it's honestly less convenient than taking public transport. You can drive to your destination fairly quickly, but you then have to find a place to park the car and walk from there to where you're going. In Center City especially, that can take nearly as long as the drive there in the first place. No thanks. My car mostly only gets used when I want to leave the city.