5 Reasons to "Neglect" Transit

The American Public Transportation Association (APTA) has just published a paper on the economic cost of failing to modernize transit, referring to the roughly $100 billion maintenance backlog built up by U.S. transit agencies, mostly for rail transit. In fact, a strong case can be made that-with the possible exception of New York-American cities shouldn't restore deteriorating rail transit systems and instead should shut them down as they wear out and replace them with buses where demand for transit still exists.