>>1491899also , usually due to funding constraints there isnt much money to build it out so it's typically a short route, with only piecemeal additions once a decade after initial construction
if you can only take it for a few blocks, there's probably a bus route already that goes farther and makes stops nearby so why bother taking a train
i think one of the best examples of how american rail transit tends to fail is in cincinatti OH, where the last stop on the streetcar (which is operated by the city instead of the TA) is about a mile from a university with 40k+ students, many of whom have no car. city leaders wonder why pre-pandemic weekday ridership is usually under 1000, of course, completely oblivious to the problems it faces because they dont ride it
