Can we afford to massively fund public transit? My first response would be, with oil prices and global temperatures both continuing to rise, can we afford not to rapidly build out mass transit?
But this graphic, via Treehugger (with a good article to boot), shows we're already spending the money. It's just been going to highways. More and more money to highways. Enormous public subsidy of an automotive way of life that is paving over our land, bankrupting us to buy oil, shortening our lives with respiratory illnesses, and dangerously transforming our climate.
Hm, can anyone think of a better way to spend that money? Oh, right, mass transit.
Why is it that Amtrak and subway systems (like New York's MTA right now) are always on the verge of bankruptcy? It's time for the highways to go bankrupt. Let them earn their own keep.
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