>>1881487It usually goes like this:
>we want to open a small rail service in this area>but the tax rate will go up in the entire regionAs a result, the people that have the chance to vote against it, knowing that their taxes will go up without seeing any benefits to themselves, vote against it. Meanwhile, "transit advocates" will rant and cry about "voting against their own interests" and tell themselves "but WE subsidize them" and can't comprehend why people don't want to an endless money pit for something that may or may not ever come to fruition. As a result, people who won't use the transit system.
