As it turns out it doesn’t actually cost that much on regular transit, there’s an AIRPORT SURCHARGE because it’s an “airport train”.

No wonder Americans don’t use public transit, even when the system exists it’s ridiculously difficult and expensive to use.

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    4 days ago

    This is from Wikipedia, but the only other instances I could find were clearly biased sources, like the Cato.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio

    There’s actually a few that do break almost even, I didn’t think any did.

    As to what your point is, I have no idea, and don’t care. My initial comment pointed out that conflating public transport with the tax sources for roads isn’t the ven close. I was correct, as pointed to your sources, and now my own.

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      Why the fuck are you even replying if you don’t care what the other person has to say?

      Going through the list there, there’s more than a few that almost break even. There’s a whole slew in Japan where fees are in excess of costs as a whole. Hell, there’s more with a 200% ratio than there are states that don’t use taxes for roads.
      You’ve actually convinced me that it’s more slanted towards public transportation than I thought it was before.

      I’m glad you feel like you won, I guess? Seems like you could have gotten the same results and saved everyone time by patting yourself on the back if you don’t actually care what the other person is saying.

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        You asked for sources, I them to you, lmao. Also, I don’t give a shit about Japan. I live in the US, which is why we’ve been talking about the US. Did you hit your head recently?