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Do you think local trains and buses make money? Again, let us visit DART's web pages. <br /> <br />2001 Annual Operating Budget <br />$264.2 million <br /> <br />Total Employees <br />2,849 full- and part-time <br /> <br />Systemwide Ridership <br />95.7 million passenger trips <br /> <br />Total Revenue <br />(Bus & Rail) <br />33.8 million <br /> <br />Notice total revenues from bus and rail is $33.8 million, and buget is $264.2 million. It is the one cent sales tax that keeps DART afloat. <br /> <br />From your reasoning, we should sell DART to a private company or shut it down. Yet, I don't know of any one or any company that wishes to lose $200 million a year.... <br /> <br />But one new under construction High 5 interchange at I-635 and US-75 will cost the state $261 million......With your thinking we should have a toll on this interchange, or for that matter every road the state builds....... <br /> <br />Or better yet, sell the roads to private enterprise and let them charge us a toll..... <br />
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