Why is successful public transportation seemingly so hard to develop, and should we all be learning from Salt Lake City?

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A little over a year ago, I was applying to graduate school. I've lived in Houston for something like 10 percent of my life, which is odd, but other than that it had been all Northeast. I wanted to do something different, and so did my wife, so we were mostly looking in the Midwest. At the …