“Unfortunately, transit systems are designed to benefit existing power groups in their geographic distribution.”
That was the key sentence in a very polite, supportive, and well-written email I received about the political challenges facing my One America plan for US commuter rail. I’m not sure if the reader was referring to the geographic distribution of the power groups or of the transit systems, but his logic makes this distinction pointless. He was saying that people with the power to create or reform transit systems will do so to benefit themselves, where they live.
Fair enough.
