Money losing govt transportation projects are not the way to go either. This website seems to prefer those. They show the photo of the VA fast lane moving while the other lanes are stalled. EZ pass was like that, too, when it started in the Northeast.
If a transit line is not generating revenue it means that people in a free democracy are voting with their feet and with their money for other alternatives.
Can we allow people to vote the wrong way with their feet? and with their money?
Should voting be limited to voting for the politicians?
Should the academics who have developed the perfect models of human movement not be allowed to engineer the movement of people who vote against their own best interest?