Bus Riders Get 80% SUBSIDY

[Stephen Frank]

Another reason government has too much money. "Providing a bus service is a tricky business. We are mandated to only charge riders 20 percent of our actual costs. Therefore, taxpayers subsidize 80 percent of the costs."

Government has forced the poor and middle class to subsidize bus riders 80% of the cost of a bus ride. Government WANTS to run a deficit.

Simple answer. Force all bus lines to charge the actual cost of the service--then you will see ridership drop like a lead balloon. You will also see the deficit drop.

As long as government forces government transportation systems to lose 80%, government has too much money. I recommend that all government systems lose 80% of its subsidies--then we might get back to a somewhat honest system, Until then, our government transportation systems are totally corrupt--like a Chicago agency.

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[saw mill worker]

STEPHEN FRANK/has a very distorted view

City bus lines are a public transportation system.
That's mainly used by low income people, and inner-city youths by local citizens that live in the metropolitan part of town.
Yes these systems are paid for by government subsidies and at a cost to the taxpayer, but in the long run as prices of gas go up car insurance goes up
and more and more people join the ranks of the lower income bracket's, a larger amount of people will start riding the buses again.
Not everything that helps people should be looked at with such a distorted view.

AND BY THE WAY MR FRANK unions people have helped build this country and all they wanted was a fair and livable way and safe conditions, and that's what unions work to provide, I can tell sir you've never worked a day in your life were swept was running in your eyes, and calluses on your hands.
YOU SIR are speaking was a prejudiced mind.

[AyatollahGondola]

I think this headline is a little off the article content,

It discusses the ridership dropping, but the transit authorities plowing ahead with perks and junkets, all the while the state is cutting funding to those areas that needed an infusion of cash to keep the busses running.