[renewiltord]

It's one of those things where you're optimizing over terrain you think is flat but isn't.

The political terrain means that BRT will fail. Any road will have to be shared. However, if road space is not threatened, certain political enemies won't be enemies.

So sometimes worse is better because you can assure some people that your solution is Pareto-optimal for them.

[spacemanmatt]

Ironically, it would have played into Abbott's plans to lure CA businesses to Texas if he had built working transit in our major cities. Instead he's got Rick Perry's failed energy grid and the economics of hard-right politics to inspire defections.