The only way that they could get enough riders to make this work would be to require the unemployed to collect their checks in person in Columbus.
They’d have to give them a special train fare allowance then.
Below is exactly what is going to happen to us in Ohio after this dumb idea is rolling for a year, times 10.
It’s birthday time for the Rail Runner Express commuter rail service — today marks the first anniversary of the train’s service between Albuquerque and Santa Fe.
Officials say that since the Santa Fe service started, the train has carried 1,372,000 passengers, a daily average of about 4,400.
But fares still don’t account for much of the Rail Runner’s operating budget. Rail Runner spokeswoman Augusta Meyers said out of last fiscal year’s $21 million operating budget for the train, about $1.9 million came from ticket sales. Most of the money, about $17 million, was from the federal government’s Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality program.