[k_sh]

> most of the US government is designed to self-sabotage things like publicly run transit anyway

What level of US government is sabotaging transit? The federal government doles out at least $2.3B every year for transit projects[0], meanwhile state and local governments throughout the US are approving tax increases for more transit.

[0]: https://www.transit.dot.gov/funding/grant-programs/capital-i...

[crowbahr]

And 41 billion by the federal government is spent on roads.

168 billion total from state and local.

https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiative...

Public transit on the other hand sees only 24.38 billion total.

https://www.bts.gov/browse-statistical-products-and-data/tra...

[seszett]

> The federal government doles out at least $2.3B every year for transit projects

That's about a fifth of what just Paris spends per year. For a 300-million inhabitants country, it seems a bit low.

[Cyph0n]

$2.3b sounds like peanut spending given the scale of the US and the current state of transit in the country.

[x220]

>$2.3B every year

At this level a couple billion dollars is hardly anything.