President Biden’s infrastructure plan proposes doubling federal support for public transit to $85 billion. The White House hopes “to modernize existing transit and help agencies expand their systems to meet rider demand.” But what if rider demand does not grow — or what if it even declines, as it has in many places? Cities with little public-transit demand will be left with onerous infrastructure that gobbles up funding from other important municipal services.
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