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[quote user="videomaker"] Sam, If its not profitable,why is DART growing like gangbusters covering nearly every part of Dallas and now Dallas county? If you dont think its profitable go ride DART across downtwn Dallas and during the lunch hr ,not to mention rush and come back and tell us what you think !   I dont think its ALL about money,profit..  [/quote] DART, which captures approximately 10 per cent of its costs through the fare box, is growing because of the large subsidies it receives from local and federal taxpayers.  A profitable enterprise recovers all of its costs through the fare box or from sales and generates a return (net income) for the investors.  Government activities are not all about money.  Nor is life.  But it is about who is going to pay for it.  Because there is no free lunch, although that is very difficult for some people to understand.  As noted in a previous post, on a typical day DART, the T, and Trinity Railway Express carry less than 3.5 per cent of the adults (over 18) in Collin, Dallas, and Tarrant counties.  In other words, although the trains appear to be widely used, in fact a very small percentage of the population uses the light rail, commuter rail, and bus systems. Of course, a higher percentage of the population in Dallas, as well as some of the commuties along the line, use the services, but no matter how you slice and dice the numbers, public transport in the Metroplex is used by a relatively small percentage of the population. This squares with national figures published by the US Department of Transportation.  Throughout the country approximately 4.5 per cent of the population uses public transport.  Of course, the percentage using it in select metropolitan areas is much higher, but throughout the country Americans have consistantly choosen the automobile to get to work, shopping, entertainment, etc.
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