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The decline of public transport is not inevitable. As discussed in this article, public policies can produce large ridership growth even in countries where auto ownership levels are already high and growing, and where suburbanization is occurring at a rapid pace. The focus is on public transport in Western Germany, generally considered by Europeans to be the ideal model of transit coordination. Multimodal coordination successes in Germany encouraged similar efforts in Switzerland, Austria and the Netherlands. Could similar policy and organizational reforms eventually be adopted in the United States?