And you expect us to believe you can be objective? Yeah.
I’m involved much more heavily in highways than public transit. Transportation engineering involves everything from airports to railroads to traffic signals to pipelines. I don’t have any vested interest in one mode over another.
My point on Rand Paul, who I actually support, is that he took an abstract libertarian concept and applied it to the landmark civil rights legislation of our time, a measure passed due to Republican support. When a think tank like the Cato Institute does this type of study regarding modes of transportation it opens conservatives up to the same criticism that Dr. Paul got. Theory is fine, but sometimes one has to look at the broader values of society. Dr. Paul was born in 1963 and could not be expected to have seen segregated accommodations and lunch tables. I saw them.
Just as we have to accept some societal responsibility for a basic public transportation system (both intra- and intercity) we have to accept the idea of open public accommodations regardless of race or ethnic origin.