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> At some point during that process, you'll have to take away space from cars.

Why couldn't you just build transit that's above or below the existing space for cars instead? Sure it might be more expensive or difficult to do, but at least it wouldn't be making people's lives worse the whole time.

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That is exorbitantly expensive by comparison and only makes financial sense when you have a large enough population in the area to support it.

Local governments are not rolling in cash. If your town substantially raised your taxes to pay for that project, would you also complain about that?

> Why couldn't you just build transit that's above or below the existing space for cars instead?

It's basically free to paint a lane red and declare that it's only for buses. Tunnels can cost billions per mile.

It's free in terms of direct monetary cost to do, sure. But there's a very high cost of banning cars from a lane, borne by everyone who used to use that lane but can't anymore.

Alternately: there's a high cost to not creating a dedicated bus lane paid by everybody who rides the bus or chooses not to ride the bus because it's too slow.

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