Americans are also very fickle with transit use. It spikes when gas prices go up but then goes right back down with gas prices. You can't run a robust system on this kind of customer demand. That may change with Millennials but who knows.. it might go right back with the next generation too.
What's so shocking about this? It's well known how individualistic the American is. Only the wallet can sway this tendency.
The car is a gift to such sentiment. But no one wants to pay the gas to go with it.
Certainly doesn't help that with so little money given, the fat cats at the top will lap up what does come first, then they'll get more funding propositions passed,rinse and repeat.
At least that seems to be how BART works.
