so are you suggesting that public transport become a federal commitment?

why talk about such things? your opinion doesn't really matter.

you can't partipate in the management of the nation, as we are not a democracy. you have to take what politicians are willing to offer you. they will tell you what is best, and you will tug your forelock and say, "thankee, sor" like the quasi-serf you are.

as it happens, the federal government is beginning to follow the logical path of taking over state functions by starvation: states are unable to provide services required of them because they gave up taxing power. the feds say, "since they won't do it, we will". in this way, the federal government doesn't have to rely on the electorate to support a power transfer referendum.

so centralization is coming, in the worst possible way: by stealth, and without paring back state bureaucracy. the states will wither, but slowly and expensively.