Read the paper . It will only pay for itself if it is planned properly leading to significant ridership increase within significant time (20 years, as per paper). Claim that PT always pays for itself no matter what is false.

By 'nobody likes transit' I meant commute in public transport, and of course it's an oversimplification that I used to reply to a dumb comment.

I don't cling to suburbs, and I don't hate cities. I hate living in cities. And I lived in several European cities for a large part of my life. I prefer to live in a suburb or semi-rural area, and those areas work differently than cities. Public transportation cannot work in them the same way. Again I know that for a fact because I lived major part of my life in a public transport based country, and even there suburbs and semi-rural areas were covered sparsely and people relied on personal transport a lot.

Don't get me wrong, it's cool to have public transport, it liberates those who cannot drive for financial reasons or because they are too young, but pushing it everywhere only works if everyone is pushed into cities, which I'm not having.