Many of the comments seem to have reached a conaensus about the purported issue: public transit is slow because where people are and where they want to be are n

Many of the comments seem to have reached a conaensus about the purported issue: public transit is slow because where people are and where they want to be are not connected by public transit. It seems impossible to judge the speed of "riding transit" in an unqualified sense when where we build the places people want to be and how close that is to existing public transit is no part of the conversation.