Now if the State transportation package had been to fund $300 million on Beltline over the next decade or so, THAT's a win-win. For cars and the people who drive them. 
It's been a tough start to the week. First we get a picture of a young woman who serves on a planning commission riding her bike. Now it's politicians riding EmX. Where are the really important shots of leaders in cars waiting in long lines as traffic backs up? 
"The 2013-15 legislatively adopted budget for the Transportation program area totals $4.1 billion".  Yet the cost of even maintaining our existing infrastructure is so expensive that we're short about $500 million. The bridges built in the road boom of the  60's and 70's are needing repair.  But while gas has dropped by over a dollar a gallon, motorists don't want to pay a nickel more per gallon on roads.
I support public transit. But elephant in the room is how much we spend on roads, not EmX.