Getting people to get on a bus is hard. We subsidize motor vehicle traffic much more heavily than we subsidize public transit, making driving an attractive option. The true cost of driving a personal vehicle is not included in the complete cost of road building and maintenance, illness and death from pollution, oil spills, groundwater pollution, or "free" parking. The transportation market is inefficient because of this, making it more attractive to drive than it should be even with subsidies for public transportation.
Weaver has been a crusader for everything wrong with LTD. It's good to have the public watch our public institutions. But we saw what happened during the high gas prices and the Recession. People overwhelmed the public transit system when its revenue fell because the tax is based on business success, which is just dumb. When that happened the criticism was that LTD was NOT doing enough.
This is a long-term solution that needs more time before a final verdict is made.