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Public transport advocates have been saying things like that as long as I can remember but I'm not seeing much more public transport. What I am seeing is accelerating adoption of electric cars, along with an exponential drop in battery costs.

However, if you can get governments to finally roll out lots more public transport, definitely go for it. Preferably with something electric, we don't really need more fossil on the road.

>>Dennis+(OP)
I don’t know where you live and perhaps you are not seeing more public transit usage in your area, however if you look at the data—and the data both exists and is relatively easy to find—public transit usage is on the increase in most major cities in the world, even in North America.

In my country of origin the public transit system is horrendous where politicians picked subsidizing electric cars (despite policy experts telling them what terrible climate policy that is [data exists too on that]) with minimum funding going to public transit expansion. And even there—with the exception of covid—public transit usage is on the rise.

In my current home city of Seattle a lot of funding has gone into expanding and maintaining the public transit system and usage has increased very dramatically as a result.

The reality is that electric cars are not a good climate policy by any standard. Even a lackluster implementation of public transit expansion beats a solid program of subsidizing electric cars.