No contradiction at all.  You just apparently thought I meant it's doesn't work for ANYBODY.  My idea of "working" isn't spending billions of taxpayer money to serve to a few% of the people.  Obviously SOME people are always going to benefit from transit.  There are people in this metro area that hit the light rail jackpot, because a station went in a block from their house and they work downtown where it goes. But that's a very small% of the metro population. 

You confusing this discussion about metro transit with traveling OUTSIDE the metro area to other cities just muddied the waters.  That wasn't the discussion.  Transit WITHIN the metro area was.