This seems like a culture/economy wide problem. Like in my local city they're running fewer buses due to staffing issues while planning to spend $130 million o

This seems like a culture/economy wide problem. Like in my local city they're running fewer buses due to staffing issues while planning to spend $130 million on a BRT line and billions more on other capital projects. There's a huge bias towards the big bang/silver bullet solution and against the simple/mundane but effective solution.