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Transport infrastructure is one of the issues I'd think would be a no-brainer for support as far as public or even shared private projects go.

Providing transportation to your workers isn't a core function that you want to be working on yourself as a business; it's a problem you'd prefer to externalize or share. And the better the transportation infrastructure of a city functions, the more likely the city in general will be a desirable place for workers to settle.