When planners or politicians talk abt infra they literally talk about the central importance of transportation choice. If we expand bus service it’s to expand ppl’s mobility choices. Even transit advocates talk this way. Every micromobility discussion, for instance, talks this way
I know many of the general public aren’t clamoring for expanded transit at the expense of car infra. But this is itself the fruit of long-term infra choices to build out a car world. We tore up and paved over train lines. Again, it didn’t just happen
And if it didn’t just happen, if it was achieved over time, then it would take a fervent ideological, long-term commitment to change it. But we don’t see manifest such a commitment in the way we pay for, plan, and build. So the question is why