[vonmoltke]

> Nobody is inherently against public transit.

I knew plenty of people in the suburbs of Dallas who were against public transportation and any expansion of DART out to their towns. It was usually accompanied by talk of "that element" coming up from the city to rob their houses. It was fucking ridiculous, but unfortunately these people exist and need to be dealt with in order to get transit projects through.

[Aaronstotle]

Option seems simple, don't give them a choice in the matter. Say we're building X, it will be done to improve public transit.

[vonmoltke]

The problem is DART needs the outlying towns to join it in order to run anything there. The NIMBYs simply pressured the town into not agreeing to join, so there was no way to do this.