> Public transportation is supposed to lose money, not make it, hence the "public" part. It's paid for by tax dollars, because it is impossible for private comp

> Public transportation is supposed to lose money, not make it, hence the "public" part. It's paid for by tax dollars, because it is impossible for private companies to make money from it. What? No! Public as in "open to the public". At least in the German equivalent "Öffentlicher Nahverkehr" thats exactly what it says ("öffentlich" = "open to the public"). Systems like the MTR[0] also show that it is indeed possible to have a public transportation system that is directly profitable at scale. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTR