[meyer]

That kind of anti-transit rhetoric is so patheticly stupid that it's hilarious.

It may be all of those but it is also incredibly true. People don't want to ride around like cattle. Take those billions and build some roads.

[Willie Green]

People don't want to ride around like cattle.

Some do, some don't.
That's the whole idea behind providing alternatives from which people may choose.
It's arrogantly presumptuous to pretend that you know what everybody wants.