Grand River Transit

[danbrotherston]

The calculations will favour driving as long as the price of gas at the pumps doesn’t include externalities (greenhouse gases, and other air pollutants), and roads are free to the user. Until then, it’s senseless to insist that transit achieve a certain level of farebox recovery if we want it to be attractive to potential users.

This is really a rather good point, cars are attractive because they have a huge fixed cost, and huge externalities, but for most are seen as necessary, thus you must have one, and once you have one, not using it doesn't make financial sense.