“You don’t build for the 2%.”
I don’t know if you’re just being contrary or if you have serious reasons public transit could never ever work for you. Ninety percent of us could live without cars if viable public transit was in place. A good percentage of people who are functionally locked out of society by the expense of owning a car or other hardships would be able to access culture, economy, and jobs they’re not able to access now.
It’s almost impossible to overstate the positive ecological impact of taking millions of cars off the road and no longer producing thousands of replacements for them every year.
Maybe we’ll never get 100% off the road but 90% could be the turning point we need to save humanity.