&quot;Maybe a better question would be about why the hell you can&#x27;t get there from here when so much money is apparently being thrown at the problem.&quot;<p>Very often the people who make decisions about where the transit goes have different agendas from the people who will be riding it.<p>For instance, the city where I currently live has expanded southward in a big way. What used to be the city center 60 years ago is now on the northern edge. Yet, for decades, just about any bus trip that required you to change buses involved traveling all the way north to the old downtown area, even if you were going from (say) the southeast side to the southwest side.<p>Yes, it was political. The downtown merchants had a lot of clout.<p>This has improved a lot in recent years, with transfer stations opening up in several other areas of town.<p>Another example would be the alleged manipulation of the Chicago transit system and locations of public housing projects by Mayor Daley (the original one) so that minorities would have a difficult time traveling to the &quot;nice&quot; parts of town.