They hate the private car because the car empowers the individual and not the collectivity. They are willing to spend millions of dollars to prove how crazy they are.
It’s not a bus stop but a future home for homeless bums.
But they got rid of the streetcars because buses were more car-like and the bus operators were private and non-monopolistic (i.e. unlike the privately-owned electric power companies that ran the streetcars), didn’t they . . . ? And now they spend more on state-run city and commuter buses than was ever spent on “monopolistic” streetcar companies, especially on making the bus stops a bit fancier. How ironic.
The automobile remains very popular overseas (especially in Europe) where they spend lots of dough subsidizing public transit, too. This is in countries with long histories of state ownership of public transit; and the real irony there is that Europe is where the automobile was invented.