To be fair , subsidies in Europe public transit are huge says my urban economics prof . If they were to run without subsidies , a lot of them would go bankrupt if they didn ' t increase prices by a lot . I wouldn ' t call that very efficient . I agree public transit is more efficient than cars , but that doesn ' t mean cars should leave and we should only have public transit . It just means that prices are wrong and that we should correct that both for cars and for public transit including PT investments . We don ' t need morecheaper transportation we need to start paying for it . <| sep |> True , but at least it gives some kind of show of unpopularity . <| sep |> Also Fitchner was a Peerless Scarred , I can only imagine that he had sufficient sway , resources and fear induced in functionaries that nobody was too inclined to look very closely if he pressed the point .