Bus commuter here -- and also a wild advocate for mass transportation expansion Most commuter buses in Seattle fill up before reaching some main dumping points

Bus commuter here -- and also a wild advocate for mass transportation expansion Most commuter buses in Seattle fill up before reaching some main dumping points in downtown. Imagine if 75% of those people were on the road instead, what that would do to traffic, road conditions, pollution, etc. I think the free market is fine, but subsidizing something like mass transit seems universally beneficial, even those who still choose to drive their evil cars to work every day (like my wife). Sure you can nitpick at edge cases like people taking taxis more, but I don't think there's much a case for overall arguing that mass transit isn't beneficial for a city.