Urban Rail-transit in the US — Development-Trends, Federal Policy, Funding Limits

Since the 1920s, and more so since World War II, the mobility offered by automobiles has allowed development to spread out in patterns unsuitable for service by rail-transit. The strong suburban extension of many cities was politically supported, or at least tolerated, in order to increase home ownership for a large share of the population. Decreasing use of bus and rail lines has paralleled the steady decline of metropolitan development densities in the last half of the 20th century.KeywordsPublic TransportationPublic TransitVoter ApprovalRail LineUrban Rail TransitThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.