Originally Posted by Mobile 155

It doesn’t have to be a big conspiracy it can just as easily be with a successful economy comes more private choices. There used to be hotels with shared bathrooms. People for some unknown reason wanted rooms with their own bathroom. At one time there were shared party lines for phones. Then everyone seemed to like having their own phone and number. Is it perceived today that public restrooms are only for the poor? If not why do people prefer their own restroom? If public phones are just as good and more sustainable than personal phones why are pay phones all but extinct? Cell phones are even replacing land lines in many homes.

I know now the beginning was long winded but it is to point out that at some point an economical successful society just seem to prefer their own things. A desire for assets and private property is stronger when it is “your” assets and private property. People, in my observations, seem to prefer their own timeframe to the public timeframe set by mass transit. People prefer a transit system that starts at their property line and ends at their destination. Mass transit has not offered a solution to that desire.

As as far as what the public is willing to pay for just who other than the tax payer should make that decision?