The Rise and Fall of Mass Rail Transit (From Building

Multiple Choice

The Rise and Fall of Mass Rail Transit (from Building American Cities: The Urban Real Estate Game) JOE R. FEAGIN and ROBERT PARKER
-Urban areas in the U.S. have often grown with only a poor or absent public transit system in place because:

A) public mass transit was not necessary once people could own cars
B) public mass transit has been opposed by businesses that profit from individually owned means of transportation
C) Americans have never liked the idea of public (government-owned) mass transit
D) there were no technological breakthroughs that would make public mass transit as economical as private transportation