"We have no meaningful public transit here and those systems are items that you can’t quickly scale."
Again, you don't think that maybe, just maybe we could scale it up sometime in the next 10 years?
And I take severe issue with "no meaningful public transit system". CapMetro has over 100k boardings per day. Does Pittsburgh have more, sure about twice as many*. But if we have nothing they have barely more than nothing.
*It's even a bit closer than that, on a per-capita basis, since they're larger. 400k more in the UZA
https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/data...t/2016-metrics