I agree with you and I think it's the main point of the article: cities need to push to make public transport a "first class transportation medium" so that peop

I agree with you and I think it's the main point of the article: cities need to push to make public transport a "first class transportation medium" so that people from all Socioeconomic levels take it. The same thing happens here in my city in Mexico: public transport is uncomfortable, slow, insecure and dirty. So, mid/high income population avoid using it and instead buy cars. The government then has to spend more money in infra for those cars; money that could be used to improve public transport. I guess a difference between Mexico and USA is that because here the m as majority of people are "poor" , more people use public transport.