What they ought to do is have "yuppie" cars on the trains. You have to pay an extra dollar to get on them and have to be dressed at least business casual. These cars need to be upscale, with advertisements for Grey Goose vodka instead of Colt 45 Malt Liquor and for banks instead of paycheck loan outlets.
What I'm saying here is that the yuppies and the upscale business set need to have separate cars in which they can read their Wall Street Journal and maybe sip a plastic glass of wine (bought at the platform for $6 a pop) without having to switch their wallets from their back pockets to their front pockets and mess up their hair and loosen their ties to make the other riders think they are just as disheveled and hopeless as they are.
What we need are PREMIUM cars on our public transportation trains. Cars with no graffiti, empty fast food wrappers on the floor and no jarring public service announcements on the loudspeakers. Instead, pipe in some Chopin or Mozart music and have a pleasant "dinging" noise when the train reaches a station with a pleasant female voice announcing the name of the station.
This used to be done on the NYC subways back in the early days. During morning rush hour, the last cars of the train were “reserved” for Wall Streeters.
Of course, this won’t work today. A more likely solution are large vans or jitneys.
Right now, public transportation is seen as low class by many. That’ll change.
Hey, I'd certainly pay extra for such plush appointments. It'd be a huge improvement over my last public transport experience (New Orleans, 1979). Back then, the public buses were full of 3-inch-long cockroaches (that can fly, by the way..), orange peel - and women who used empty beer cans as hair rollers.