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Old Posted Apr 16, 2009, 5:10 PM
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I hate to bring this up yet again, but.... Japan. Private bus and train operators provide a huge amount of services, and the public ones tend to charge enough to cover most of their expenses.

(standard disclaimer: of course, this requires less ass-backwards planning than we have here and there's various cultural and geographic factors at work. Still, saying that transit has never worked when run like a business is not at all correct)
Which is why I made sure to bold North American model. Put half the population of the United States onto a series of islands the size of California and, yes, transit will work.
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