[bluGill]

To be fair to the NIMBYs - most public transit investments have been done wrong.

Transit often doesn't get people where they want to go, when they want to go, in a reasonable amount of time, for a reasonable price. If you are missing any of the above then you don't have a useful transit network and the car starts to look compelling. (cars are expensive, but the marginal cost of a trip is very low once you have one)

Worse, when transit improvements are done, often they are expensive and deliver very little useful changes.

With the above backdrop it isn't hard to see their point. That doesn't make them right, but it means if you want transit you have a lot of evils on your side to fight.