quote: "If light rail and streetcar riders had to pay their for how much the rides really cost, both systems would fall flat on their face. All of us subsidize the system that less than 10% of us use. Most of us don't have the extra time that it takes to use mass transit (add at least an extra hour per trip).
We have piss poor roads and crooks running rampant. We have elderly and disabled who need money to help them (not drug addicts) but instead we waste the money by subsidizing high price developments and an under-used transit system. Priorities are pretty messed up. "

There are so many problems with your flawed post and thinking that I scarcely know where to begin. To start with, autos are subsidized much more than mass transit. It doesn't take a lot of thought to tick off the externalized costs created by private automobiles. If both mass transit users and private auto users were forced to internalize the costs of their chosen transportation alternative, MT would win in a landslide, but I digress. Secondly, you want to help the elderly and poor by taking away their most important transportation alternative? You are worried about where we are wasting our money but don't mention the massive human and financial sinkhole located in Iraq? You focus your ire on transportation projects designed to help our communnity and vulnerable citizens while ignoring the fact that we are piling up massive deficits and giant body counts in a debacle of unimaginable proportions? You are screwed in the head dude.