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The fact is that nobody turns a profit hauling people unless they provide that premium service for which they can extract the last nickel someone will pay, or they get massive help from public sources, or both. Look it up. Nobody in the world does. People do not want to pay what their transportation is worth, and will not buy tickets that cost them enough to fully compensate their carriers for their rides. On whatever mode you can name. People equate the cost of public transportation with the cost of driving their cars, and always - ALWAYS - underestimate that cost. The US opted, ostensibly for defense reasons, to construct the Interstate Highway System. France and Japan opted to construct high-speed rail. Their systems, in the mid-'70s, cost the equivalent of $1 million US per day to operate. Both of them. I was working for a government agency, and we checked it out, just out of curiosity. I wonder what France and Japan are paying now, per day . . . Old Timer
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