[Willie Green]

I don’t give a sh*t about your facts;

I doubt if you care about any facts at all.

my own eyes tell me your ‘facts’ aren’t the whole story.
And I wasn’t the only one to point that out.

I know. People put on parisan blinders and only see what they're told to see.

Mass transit projects cannot pay for themselves and are a net drain on tax revenues.

I'm familiar with the talking point.
It is analytically myopic.
Efficient transportation systems facilitate local economic activity, and that economic growth provides tax revenue that exceeds any subsidy necessary to provide the service. Limiting the analyisis to the transit agencies P/L statement is ludicrous, especially when they are often formed as non-proft entities to begin with.

[dirtboy]

Efficient transportation systems

Tell me again how train systems requiring large-scale government subsidies for fares and capital improvements meet any SANE definition of 'efficient'.

Hint, they don't.