Second person I've seen on this thread, and maybe the fiftieth in my whole life experience, who heard "Let's fund public transportation!" and offered, as a counter-argument mind you, "No, public transportation is terrible."

Analogy:

Wife: "Hey let's buy a new toaster!"

Husband: "No way, have you seen how shitty our toaster is?"

People voted. They voted to use Uber and Lyft, not some monopolistic system. Freedom of choice and agile won out over top-down, waterfall.

Public transportation sucks and will continue to suck, even with more funding. People want to pay for something better than it can be at its best, at least in most urban centers in the US.