in order to reverse the incentives that brought us the current system design, the net of road-taxes/tolls vs public-transit-fares should be re-balanced until transit is free and driving has incremental costs, as opposed to the current effective inverse.

Do what Japan does, the railways are private real estate companies that run giant shopping/apartment/office complexes on top of the stations. They’re super rich. They’re regulated so they have to provide service to unprofitable areas and use standardized infrastructure. It is glorious.

They are also the single least efficient transit organizations on the planet, at least when it comes to new construction where apple to apple comparisons are easier to make.

They get billions of the federal and state governments - I’ve always wondered why the federal government pours so much money into a transit system that such a small percentage of the country uses.