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Poorer households are actually the majority of users in Los Angeles [1].

I suspect this isn't the case in many other American cities, because

a. Transit is a luxury good, raising prices and gentrifying an area

b. Transit is the easiest to build to close places (from the CBD), which are often rich

c. Poorer communities just aren't a priority for most cities, at least not until recently.

Anecdotally, in Europe the modal split is probably more even.

[1] https://pedestrianobservations.com/2018/11/11/meme-weeding-l...