Why Do So Many ST3 Critics Want Buses When Trains Would Be Better and Cheaper?

by Charles MudedeFraming the future of Sound Tranist Charles Mudede
Again and again, the critics of ST3, on the right and, sadly, the left, have argued that buses are somehow cheaper than light rail, and therefore it's better to send transit investments to Metro rather than to the Link. And why do these groups think bus transportation is cheaper than rail? In the way Keynes once explained that practical types often think they are expressing an economic idea that's their own, but are instead unde