In America public transportation isn't a costflow break even business.
Public transportation is funded out of federal highway tax dollars
The major cities all have bus lines that are subsidized.
Ever been to some of those little towns where they have a seemingly useless light rail system?
Where it serves more of a hindrance to transportation than a benefit?
Poor people who cannot afford a car or chose to not waste the money if they are not interested in cars and see no need to have one can walk, ride the bus or take a taxi jut about anywhere.
These light rail systems are there for the purpose of bringing in federal tax dollars into the community to fatten salaries without burdening the voters.
At first glance it seems they are doing a good and noble thing... transport for anyone...
but it is a redundancy.
where does the money come from...fuel taxes.
Not just on cars. every semi on the road burns on average a gallon a minute. that's between 30 and 40 cents a minute every semi moving is paying into the highway taxes which fund not just highways but unprofitable public transportation projects.
it is a tax on everythign you consume..it isn't someone else paying the tax...
Europe has a fine system of public transport. I don't know if it is self sustaining but they also have many other tax obligations and funded privileges we do not have.
Public transportation is overall more expensive than private transport if you add the fare to the tax burdon.
public medicine and anything else public is going to cost more than if it were private because the people administering the privileges will naturally get paid more than you, will work less at it than professionals and perform to a lower standard than the customer demands and it will require more of the inefficient administrators in numbers... because you have no alternative.
Administrators or Ministers as they call them don't actually get paid to do anything... they get paid to talk about doing something and then someone else still has to do it.
Like the lovely commercial where the consultants go into an American corporation, tell them what the best course of action is and hands them a bill. The ceo writes them a check and says excellent, get right on it...
The consultants look at each other and laugh and say "we consult...we don't actually do anything".
Myself I find thinking to come easy, it is pleasurable and comes naturally with no effort at all.
I don't think that I shall seek advice nor should I pay for advice from someone who toils at or struggles with thought