If you like public transportation, as apparently you do, take it. Just don't be demanding the rest of us pay for it, or worse, live the "lifestyle" that accommodates it. I think that is the crux of the issue and the point of this article.
Does liking public transport make me a liberal?
I like street cars, and I know their value as machines.
Realistically one street car can move as many people from a suburban setting to a downtown area as 40 cars. In a continuous loop with a streetcar arriving every 2 to 5 minutes in a hour that can be the equivalent of 480 to 1200 cars per hour in a downtown parking garages or gridlock per hour.
Simple mathematics ought to tell anyone that if you can keep that many cars out of downtown areas people would be less stressed and the roads would be easier to travel.
Remember my original comment these people are idiots. they want to put everyone on bikes or in buses.