I would invitr your mom and his to the conversation and reply , Justin , this is really inappropriate . <| sep |> I don ' t think mass transit supporters would have us do away with highways all together . The problem is that on a large scale individuals driving individual cars is a colossal waste of space and resources . contentuploads 2013122 ndAveGif 2 . gifThe other thing a lot of people are missing except if they ' d read the comments is that America had spent nearly a century building an expansive system of trains and streetcars by the 40 ' s or so . These were bought out by automotive interests deliberately , in order to make room for the car . So it ' s not that we want to get rid of cars to make way for public transit , it ' s that we did get rid of public transit to make room for cars ! ! An ideal world does have the freedom to drive a car or haul large goods . We had both of those things . Now we just have one .