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[quote user="John WR"] [quote user="Sam1"]I agree with taxpayer in-city transit. A significant percentage of it provides transportation to low income people. I have a problem having the taxpayers pick-up part of the commuter cost for a Wall Street Bank earning a half a million a year.[/quote] Commuter trains serve people of all income levels from the highest to the lowest.  Once a commuter train is in operation conventional wisdom is that the commuter authority should try to get a maximum number of riders.  To institute a means test so that people above a certain income level would be prohibited from riding the train is, again, counter intuitive.  [/quote] Here is a way for the commuter transit authority to maximize ridership.  Make it free!  That's what Austin tried a few years ago with its bus system.  In addition to nearly wrecking the city's finances, the buses attracted heaps of street people, who in turn drove away the few middle class riders who used the bus.
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