The deficit is largely attributable to the expiration of COVID-19 relief funds. Other contributing factors include inflation, rising fuel and power costs, and a decline in ridership that began at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the habitual underfunding of public transportation and other essential services in the eighth largest metropolitan region in the United States.
Amazing how there is never a death spiral for paved roads or new lanes.
Hmm
That is not entirely a fair equivalence though.
A road is built once and after that it exists. Its a matter of maintenance and upkeep to make sure the road doesnt deteriorate over time. But even if you neglect that, the road will still exist… only now with potholes.
There are many places around the world with shit roads like this.
Public transit requires staff pay, fuel costs, upkeep, etc besides the initial investment and maintenance. If that money doesn’t exist the busses don’t disappear, but there will be noone to drive them. Same for trains and other modes of transit.
So when public transit has funding issues they are more immediately noticeable than when the road authority has funding issues.
yep, a dirt road works acceptably without maintenance for years, a transit system requires these disgusting flesh creatures to function.