"People who you think are normally rational will come back from visiting Disneyworld or France — look for the little mark on the back of their neck because they have fallen in love with this myth that somehow this rail project is going to get the guy out of the car in front of them and onto a light rail car."
Ralph Stanley, former head of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Vail, CO, August 24, 1996

Over twenty years later and we're still fantasizing that an expensive choo choo train will get the guy in the car in front of you off the road.  Guess what?  That guy is hoping that you'll get off the road instead, making his automobile commute more pleasant.