Driving is in a steep decline in America

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

"The service is bad and I have to wait a long time" is not an adequate excuse to purchase a vehicle and have to pay monthly charges, gas, repairs, parking, and others. If anything, it's an excuse to reform and appropriate fund the public transit system further. If you don't want to wait an hour to get to a location that's four miles away, walk, bike or even carpool.

That would be a lot more expensive for an individual than buying a car.

Is this a joke? Even cheap cars are extremely expensive for young adults: my used car cost me 3000$ and if you add insurance and gas, that total would go up to whopping 5,000$+ investment. Compare that to a small increase in taxes and add in user fees.

If I had my choice, I'd never drive a car again outside of a race track. I hate the activity of driving and whenever I have the opportunity, I ride my bike. Walking or biking places is extremely pleasant and I'd recommend it to anybody who's reasonably young.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

"The service is bad and I have to wait a long time" is not an adequate excuse to purchase a vehicle and have to pay monthly charges, gas, repairs, parking, and others. If anything, it's an excuse to reform and appropriate fund the public transit system further. If you don't want to wait an hour to get to a location that's four miles away, walk, bike or even carpool.

That would be a lot more expensive for an individual than buying a car.

Is this a joke?

Don't you see the humor in someone being expected to fix the public transit system instead of buying a car?

No I don't, there is nothing humorous about a destructive and non-sustainable system being perpetuated by selfish dicks.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

"The service is bad and I have to wait a long time" is not an adequate excuse to purchase a vehicle and have to pay monthly charges, gas, repairs, parking, and others. If anything, it's an excuse to reform and appropriate fund the public transit system further. If you don't want to wait an hour to get to a location that's four miles away, walk, bike or even carpool.

That would be a lot more expensive for an individual than buying a car.

Is this a joke?

Don't you see the humor in someone being expected to fix the public transit system instead of buying a car?

No I don't, there is nothing humorous about a destructive and non-sustainable system being perpetuated by selfish dicks.

Okay, you've convinced me. With the $4K I get selling my car I'll go out and solve my region's transit deficiencies (hopefully before I have to get somewhere important in a hurry). However, I'm a bit short on the naive sense of moral superiority required for this endeavor so maybe you can loan me some.

Selfish dicks: people who are unwilling to pay a small increase in taxes to accommodate those who can't easily afford to purchase cars or who don't want to purchase cars to save money. This has nothing to do with drivers of cars inherently being selfish fossil fuel users, it has to do with a suburban mentality that says that everyone needs to own a car and that car ownership is the only way to structure society.

tl;dr version: you either misread my post or an asinine fool.