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To: tejek who wrote (800558)	8/9/2014 1:44:18 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583677

Yes, and in Dallas, DART has done the same thing over the last 20 years or so. Last year, the entire system had 108 million passenger trips, or about 300K/day, subsidized at a rate of nearly $5 per passenger from a half billion a year in sales tax revenue (that was voted in more than 20 years ago), no end in sight. Dallas, like LA, is big and sprawling and has a very large number of daily commuters downtown, both for work and for nightlife. Nobody is riding these trains. In LA the numbers are scarcely any better: 360k/day (the rail portion is just over half that). These trains are empty. People aren't using them, and they're not going to anytime soon. As to high speed rail -- a different thing -- there are a few routes that make economic sense. I seriously doubt the LA-SFO route ever could, though, because it will cost far too much to build. This is the problem with liberalism: You [collectively] are incapable of understanding cost/benefit ratios.