Highway spending increased by 90% in 2021. This is one of many reasons why car traffic is growing faster than population growth.
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I'm not against having a car for when I need it. I'm against pretty much requiring it to be a functional adult to do just about anything without public transit becoming my new hobby.
Work: 20min drive, 1h 20min transit, 2h bike
Groceries: 10min drive, 45min transit
This includes a bunch of walking to/from stops and half the time spent waiting since my city's public transit hub/spoke model is designed for airplanes requiring you to bounce between hubs.
There also isn't consistency. A favorable route might only come once every few hours. If one hop is running late, it can wreck the whole route.
My work route is pretty direct but it takes 12min walking, 0-20min waiting for a bus to my local hub, 0-40min waiting for the right train, and another 15min walking to the office. If they got those wait times down to like 10-20min total, I'd be more inclined to use it. Right now "something" comes every 20min, but sometimes the routes alternate so your route may come every 40min instead of 20min.