In expense of peoples lives and well being. You can also say that Doctor Mengele helped to advance modern medicine and you would be right. Still this would be really inhumane view of the world.

Transit doesn't need innovation. we have been doing it for a long time. Iterate on what is know to work. Small change is generally best.

Transit needs major innovation and overhaul if it's to gain any significant market share.

For instance in the UK (in 2022), a whopping 6% of commuting trips were by bus and 9% were by rail. Even less for leisure: 3% of leisure trips are by bus, 3% by rail. That's terrible market share!

Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/transport-statistic...

Innovation is not needed. Overhaul is perhaps needed, but all the innovations needed to get high market share are already known in the world.

Most of what is lacking is the money needed to run that service. That is not an innovation.