There's an often-missed angle on public transit: total transit time. has to go up with public transit, including trains, That means you're asking everybody taking them to spend possibly alot more time to go anywhere

Absolutely not true. Yes the minimum total transit time is higher for public transport (rail/bus/etc) compared to private transport (car/truck/etc), but the average and more importantly the peak transit times are much lower with public transport.

When the roads are at >80% capacity you will spend a considerable amount of time stationary or traveling at single digit speeds. When public transport is at >80% capacity you get people standing and the total transit time rises by the extra time to get people on and off, which will be a small or zero increase compared to the total transit time (zero increase when keeping to the timetable requires waiting to leave the stopping point).

No, they specifically broke runas in a command prompt window in vista in favor of the right click -> run as administrator (bing UAC) route.

It was a totally stupid idea. Even going with a runas which then triggered UAC to gain the required privileges would have been a better plan that no runas command.

Bryn