As it turns out it doesn’t actually cost that much on regular transit, there’s an AIRPORT SURCHARGE because it’s an “airport train”.
No wonder Americans don’t use public transit, even when the system exists it’s ridiculously difficult and expensive to use.
for bart, it charges by the distance, for muni, they recently up thier fees for tickets, they are also have a budget mismangment issue which causes thier budget problems. they waste twice as much as they bring in through fare evasion fees, and transit fees, last i heard they are cutting some services in the summer. and there has some justification for fare evasion(just dont discuss this on reddit, because its mostly been infiltrated by do-gooders conservatives)
caltrain is a seperate agency than, bart, muni.
the mismangment parts: 1 of the problem is they spent twice as much as they are recouping in transit fees, lik 6+ million hiring inspectors over 2-3 million in fees. visit the reddit subs for more info.
Why do you say it’s mismanagement?
My understanding is that ridership still hasn’t returned to pre-pandemic levels and the state and federal funding that was keeping it afloat has dried up.
Pretty sure must of us aren’t going anywhere near Reddit. Muni seems a mess from my perspective, but when I visit there from sac the $8 or whatever it is for all day transit seems reasonable to me. Might have the price wrong, last time I was there was Chinese New Year and I rode the cable cars all day which was totally worth the $8. But I might as well be a tourist so I don’t know just how fucked it all is.
oh yea cable car is always more expensive than a single transit ride. pandemic really did a number of people riding the subways, it never fully recover so they have to do everything else to increase the “riders” lost instead of actually attracting more ridership.
like spending and aggressively pursuing fare evaders, spending twice or more than twice in hiring than recouping some fees from them. in reality fares make up less than 20% of thier budget. im guessing federal (washington)wants to see more initiative in justifying thier budget?
Now that trump is in power again, there might not even be money .