Ridership and revenues are way down in almost all urban transportation systems in Democrat run areas Fare beating and the fact that decent,rational people prefer to utilize the new technologies, work from home and avoid going to crime ridden cities. These transportation systems have all been losing huge amounts of money and have been subsidized by Biden bucks approved by the Democrat controlled Congress. If a Republican House refuses to fund these money losers, things will really get interesting.
People won’t willingly blow hours of their day wasting time on a train or in traffic if they aren’t required to by their jobs. It’s a total ripoff.
The firebox has never covered the expenses of mass transit. In the best of times, fares paid by riders covered less than one-third of expenses for BART, MUNI, and other public transit in the SF Bay Area. The rest of the funding comes from taxpayers at local, state and federal levels. It's always been a losing game for mass public transit. The powers-that-be want to force people to give up private ownership of cars in order to force them to pay for public transit. Not that public transit will get any better; it won't.