There are two competing issues, one is what you say, and the other is that public transportation often sucks pretty hard. Some places lean heavily one way, and some lean heavily the other way. My point is that without knowing this context, we don&#x27;t know if that story is an example of &quot;people say they want public transportation but don&#x27;t actually use it&quot; or if it&#x27;s an example of &quot;public transportation is set up badly and then the people who run it are somehow surprised when people don&#x27;t use it.&quot;