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barney54
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The Immobile Masses: Why Traffic Is Awful and Publ...
Mass transit can make sense, but it isn't profitable. Very few public transit systems in the world are profitable. Bus systems are more likely to be profitable.
https://www.quora.com/Which-public-transportation-systems-ma...
soyiuz
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Nor should they be profitable. Public goods are an expenditure, like clean air or public libraries. We want to spend money on them, that is the point.
SilasX
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Not profitable
by fares charged
, sure. Definitely profitable if they were credited with the gain in property taxes/values that their presence facilitates.
jahewson
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Interestingly this is the exact same argument which was made when most of the San Francisco cable cars were ripped out. But it wasn't true.
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