There is NO light rail system in America that is even close to self-sufficent:
- Boston recovers nearly 60% of its costs from fares
- The national average is 25%
- Houston recovers 10% (the lowest)
So if they doubled the fare to $3.40 then it would pay for itself?
Rail is more viable than I thought.
Once gas is routinely $6.00 a gallon then that will settle it.
The anti-rail posters are hypocrites: Every form of transportation is "subsidized" which, in our perverted modernist lexicon means, "not taxed to death all the time."
In the old days, when people had a LOT LESS money, rail (and a lot of other things) was viable. Of course, taxes were reasonable.
But tax everything to death, and nothing is viable...Without the evil "subsidies."