Quote Originally Posted by professorscott View Post
This whole thread is inane. Eight mile road "loses" millions of dollars a year if you subtract maintenance costs [[considerable) from tolls [[zero). Your local fire department "loses" hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars a year. Your public library loses hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. The U.S. military loses billions on top of billions of dollars a year.

Transit is a public service, like schools or libraries or public safety. It hasn't been able to make money since government road-building projects put the private transit operators out of business between the 1920s and the 1970s. It's just fucking stupid to discuss how much it "loses".
I will also concur that the above is an excellent post.

Though I am strongly against funding public transportation solely through a property tax millage in a city that forecloses on residential properties for unpaid taxes by the thousands annually, while at the same time, it is almost impossible to build any new residential housing without a major property tax abatement via the NEZs. Those are separate taxation problems, not an anti-public transport position.

It is idiotic expecting every public service any government provides to self fund its own revenue while providing the service. Corrections in this state operate at a multi Billion dollar loss but nobody thinks we don’t need them besides the criminals.