Many transit agencies openly publish this information, for example, here is Dallas: https://www.dart.org/about/about-dart/key-performance-indicator https://www

Many transit agencies openly publish this information, for example, here is Dallas: https://www.dart.org/about/about-dart/key-performance-indicator https://www.dart.org/about/about-dart/key-performance-indica... >one manager of the local bus company No offense to said manager, but I’m guessing they aren’t doing the accounting, so it’s not like they are the best source. Edit: a better source would be the national transit database [0], which tracks the fully audited costs of every transit agency in the US. A very cursory analysis of this file [1], dividing total costs by VOMS (aka vehicles used to provide peak service, not even the size of the whole vehicle fleet) for directly operated bus service (mode=MB, TOS=DO). Gives a cost of roughly $250,000 per year on average across the US. This is fully loaded, including operations, vehicle and facility maintenance, general admin, etc. basically the $1 million per year is little more than a rumor. [0] https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/data-product/2022-annual-database-operating-expenses https://www.transit.dot.gov/ntd/data-product/2022-annual-dat... [1] https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/dkxx-zjd6/rows.csv?date=20231102&accessType=DOWNLOAD&bom=true&format=true https://data.transportation.gov/api/views/dkxx-zjd6/rows.csv...