Excellent Observation

I found the following in the comments section of this post:

This East Coast hurricane should put the death nail into (and be a death knell for) public transportation: after the country has invested billions if not trillions into laying track, buying trains, and encouraging people to give up cars, New York's mayor ordered an evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people, and simultaneously turned off the trains those without cars will need to get out the storm's path.

If we can't use public transportation in an emergency, to possibly save lives, then why have it?

That's a good question, right there.