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You bet that's humor, Mike. Government, accountable! Ha. No, but seriously. Here's the problem with a free, 100% subsidized system, and why, IMO, and IMO only, it would not work. If the cost is paid by the Gov then the only people who really see the numbers will be the gov. Which means, next stop, leak city. Can't you see it now? Stewards that make 40k a year, conductors that make 70k. Phew! And that's in todays comparable civil service numbers, think what they'll get a decade from now. In addition to saoring personnel costs, what about performance and ridership? These nubmers too would be "cooked" for political purposes. You entity would be more political than what we have now. Now, a privatized or a public for cost system isn't perfect, but the overiding advantage is that if the ticket sales aren't high enough, (and thus public support is insufficent,) the train dies. Survival of the fittest and mister Truman combined. The buck train stops here. Your qoue is the key: "Good stewardship is all it takes"- but that's a tall order. And the reason private versus public is more likely to provide that is that private firms go bust. Dirty CEOs go to jail and lose their mansions. Looks like soon they may also go to Attica, yay! The way it ought to be for all criminals of that caliber. But when does a public firm go bust? Who's the last politician or administrator to go to jail? So Private isn't pefcet- but it isn't a monopoly like government.
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