Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore would very much like to disagree with you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio https://en.wikipedia.or

Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore would very much like to disagree with you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farebox_recovery_ratio Even the London tube does pretty well by this measure.