I'm all about public transit, we haven't had a car in almost 20 years. More funding for every kind of public transit is speaking my language.

But it's like everything infrastructure in life, it requires attention and maintenance. You can't just install it and then walk away - it has to be taken care of. And that's what usually goes to the dogs when budgeting happens later in the life of the project; maintenance declines, budgets are shifted elsewhere, servicing is ignored, and the rot starts to build.

I actually think that public transportation is one of the most fundamental of public works where tax money belongs.

I'm all about public transit, we haven't had a car in almost 20 years. More funding for every kind of public transit is speaking my language.

But it's like everything infrastructure in life, it requires attention and maintenance. You can't just install it and then walk away - it has to be taken care of. And that's what usually goes to the dogs when budgeting happens later in the life of the project; maintenance declines, budgets are shifted elsewhere, servicing is ignored, and the rot starts to build.

I actually think that public transportation is one of the most fundamental of public works where taxation belongs.