If a transit line is not generating revenue it means that people in a free democracy are voting with their feet and with their money for other alternatives.
Can we allow people to vote the wrong way with their feet? and with their money?
Should voting be limited to voting for the politicians?
Should the academics who have developed the perfect models of human movement not be allowed to engineer the movement of people who vote against their own best interest?
Dang, don’t YOU sound like an arrogant lib! :-D