Politicians have not made meaningful investment to expand train and subway infrastructure in past resulting in today's over crowding. To think future development will force politicians hands and get investment in any type of mass transit infrastructure is shortsighted. We need a long term regional plan with investments today that will move the needle tomorrow. Instead we have politicians who are only focused on the next election cycle who are loathe to spend public funds on long term projects when spending can be allocated to projectS they can champion and claim as wins this election cycle.