A lot of factories many years ago had housing associated or close to them, so the workers could walk, but no one expects offices especially to build homes near them for the workers. In any event, businesses are more likely to move these days. Again, personal transport wins here. I have known people willing when a job base moves to drive up to sixty miles to work to keep the job.

The proponents of public transport don’t take that into account much, and often those proponents back a system of unions that frequently can and do go on strike for pay rises that the workers they transport cannot hope to get. They just get the inconvenience, or even lost wages.