Pour out gazillions of money into American public transit and it won’t get you far. The reason why China and other Asian nations have amazing public transit is

Pour out gazillions of money into American public transit and it won’t get you far. The reason why China and other Asian nations have amazing public transit isn’t financial or technical. It’s cultural and social. And by that, I don’t mean anything to do with cars - I’m referring to just a public willingness (or enforcement) to enshre nice public things stay nice, which is often lacking in the US.