I think that is a more nuanced neighborhood by neighborhood issue.  NIMBY is always a thing, and no one wants to live right next to any sort of transit.<p>There are various reasons for this, part of those reasons is that, disproportionately, the poor tend to be relegated to mass transit.  Part of that is that transit doesn&#x27;t make sense if you get on&#x2F;off work outside of peek hours; most of the Seattle metro system is biased around serving &#x2F;Seattle&#x2F;.  Transit systems in the counties to the north and south serve even less, have much tighter budgets, and therefore also have much less service.  This is one of those self-re-enforcing loops.<p>With the HOV Toll Lane revealing just how horrid traffic on I-405 is (again absolute lack of urban planning), I think that you&#x27;d find many would agree about doing &#x2F;something&#x2F;, &#x2F;anything&#x2F;, except for taxing them in any way.  Little do they realize that you pay &#x27;taxes&#x27; in other ways, like having daily commutes of hell and a poor environment for their children to enter the workforce within.  I know that my own career development is still severely hampered by having grown up in a suburb, without a car, and thus also with less access to the scarce jobs in the area that many (but not all) of my peers took up.  I suspect that there probably weren&#x27;t enough &#x27;after school&#x27; jobs to go around though, so those who did get experience early got a head start on learning how to handle interacting with employers.