In peoples' defense, I think the problem in the vast majority of the US is that public transit is legitimately terrible and most of the US has been built up so

In peoples' defense, I think the problem in the vast majority of the US is that public transit is legitimately terrible and most of the US has been built up so that good public transit is difficult to build. I agree that public transit can be a good alternative to car travel, but the problem of marketing it in the US is that the current version of the product being marketed is, to put it bluntly, completely garbage. What really needs to be sold to people is investing in making public transit better instead of just building more roads, but that's a more abstract sales pitch. I also think selling public transit as an alternative to having a car at all is perhaps too ambitious a target. But having to use a car less still has a lot of benefits for individuals and society as a whole without having to get public transit to the point where it can replace nearly all journeys.