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To: george76
operating costs would exceed revenues by $8 billion over the next 25 years, while planned improvements (like new buses, and the Warm Springs BART station) will require someone to dig up an additional $17 billion

Lavish public transit systems are a capital-consuming, economic black hole.

3 posted on 04/19/2010 12:23:52 PM PDT by BfloGuy (It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
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To: BfloGuy

Don’t worry, they will make a profit with high speed rail...


4 posted on 04/19/2010 12:26:55 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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