Same reasons people don’t ride the Metro in Houston. In the first place they go where government wants them to go which means campaign donors use their influence to get routes and stops to their advantage. Where does all that sales tax money go? At the other end of the economic spectrum, the people who use them are not the people one would necessarily want their family to be around. Then there is the weather factor, hot and humid 4 block walks to one’s destination after the ride, or rain. Now you got the COVID. Oh yeah, have you ever seen a police officer actually on the bus with you and those thugs in the back. And you can’t carry legally on them. What could possibly go wrong?
Light rail in Houston goes from nowhere to nowhere. And it was built to wreck into cars to get them off the road.