Yes, but you can compare the cost of car ownership in NYC versus the cost of relying on the subway. I think the fact that New Yorkers think the L line closure i

Yes, but you can compare the cost of car ownership in NYC versus the cost of relying on the subway. I think the fact that New Yorkers think the L line closure is so momentous belies the idea that they would prefer to eliminate their "government subsidized" subway and all buy cars. > But if you measure dollar spent per passenger mile traveled, the MTA is incredibly expensive. Incredibly expensive compared to what? The article explicitly claims that public transportation like the MTA is the most effective way to transport large numbers of people around a dense city. I haven't seen anything in your multiple comments that suggests differently, other than a throwaway reference to Dallas (a city whose metropolitan area has a third of the population in a larger land area) and repeated suggestions that the subway is somehow bad because it is publicly funded. I would love to see actual data that private transportation (whether Uber, Lyfts, taxis, shuttles, charter buses, etc.) are more effective or efficient that their public counterparts. I don't think that your complaints about the MTA are properly engaging with the article's thesis.