Just because public transportation is used by poor people in America and the experience isn't that great doesn't mean that public transportation isn't used by everyone in other affluent countries. It's a pretty bad argument to just say that cars are better because poor people use public transportation or that cars are better because it's a socioeconomic upgrade for people on an individual level. None of that matters and frankly most of the things you mention don't even relate to eachother, like Lyft being in cahoots with luxury condo developers to to build more condos and increase citibike dependency? Lmao what? Like yeah man Citibank or Lyft or whatever is really trying to change the American fabric of transportation for its bike schemes, fuck banking or rideshares it's totally biking where the real profits are. I like not needing a car ever, the subway is the greatest thing and it only exists in NYC when it comes to America.

And miss me with that poor people shit because I grew up taking the bus in California, that shit sucks ass but I'm not dumb enough to think the problem is the bus when it's the fact that everything was A. designed for a car my family could not afford. and B. A lack of beefed up public transportation options.