Bureaucracy is universal. American issues arise from the idea that public transit is for the poor, and from the loss of expertise. If you want good transit, it

Bureaucracy is universal. American issues arise from the idea that public transit is for the poor, and from the loss of expertise. If you want good transit, it must be for the people who vote. Otherwise they will vote to make it bad to save tax money. Branding public transit as the affordable option is a guaranteed recipe for failure. Transit projects must also be small enough that the entity responsible for them always has several projects running in parallel. Once you stop building, you will quickly lose expertise, and subsequent projects will be more difficult and more expensive.