Transit Its Growth Decline And Pending Demise

Cliff Slater Spent 30 Years Fighting Rail Transit Projects. Needing To Know More Than His Opponents About Transit, He Gained A Different View Of What Caused It To Accrue Two Trillion Dollars In Subsidies Since 1975, Versus None Before Then.rail Transit In America Was Initially The Product Of Innovative Private Enterprise. But By 1960, Rail Transit Was Almost Wholly Publicly Owned And Heavily Subsidized.the Nations 1,150 Transit Bus Systems Were Still Largely Private And Profitable In 1960, But By 1983, Municipal Governments Had Taken Over The Entire Transit Bus Industry.despite The Subsidies, There Has Been A Marked Deterioration In The Condition Of The Nations Transit Infrastructure.