This is a situation where people are inevitably gonna complain about "gentrifying" transit but the way to make trains and buses better for poor people is by giving them a prestige factor that draws in well-off folks too. People need to feel like it's safe, efficient, and also a source of pride.
Stan OklobdzijaIn America, mass transit is widely considered to be an alternative of last resort for the extremely poor rather than a safer, cheaper, cleaner and more efficient means of moving people around a metropolitan area.