Yeah to be honest US transit systems are generally appalling on these sort of metrics. They manage to hit everything that makes them super expensive: 1) Often

Yeah to be honest US transit systems are generally appalling on these sort of metrics. They manage to hit everything that makes them super expensive: 1) Often very heavily unionised, driving prices for staff up to eye watering levels, especially if you include retirement benefits 2) Low population density meaning it's hard to get enough fares 3) Paradoxically, often underfunded badly and lurch from one crisis to a next, which is actually really expensive as you have capital assets under-utilised and maintenance costs soar as simple repairs don't get done, resulting in much more expensive repairs later down the line. This wikipedia article has a good table where you can see some farebox recovery ratios (not really the same stat, but quite interesting): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio