Re: Responding to irrelevance
Author: Dotsero Dude
Date: 02-27-2015 - 21:46
Restoration Specialist Wrote:
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> Tonight's puzzle:
>
> If Metrolink is so heavily subsidized by public
> funds, why are there so many here on this board
> and over at that "other" place who expect Amtrak
> to be self-supporting?
What do you mean by "if?" It's a fact. In 2013, the latest year for which I could find data, $89 million in local funding was spent on operating assistance and almost $120,000,000 in local, state and federal funding was used to cover capital costs.
The source is the National Transit Database.
I am not one who expects Amtrak to be self-supporting.
My previous post did not mention Amtrak.
Your reply is not a competent follow-up to my previous post.