I visited the Netherlands a couple years ago and the convenience and practicality of the public transportation was eye opening. I sure wish we had something like that in the US! But it would cost money, money paid by taxes, which means that rich people would have to pay more than they benefit, so politically it’s impossible. In America we try to push all social costs to the individual, which in practice means the middle class and the poor. Therefore because the public transportation is so bad, only people who can’t afford cars use it, which means you have lots of homeless people using the bus as a dry place to take a nap, and so forth. It’s usually dirty and the bus is always late. So it has a really bad reputation.
