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To sort of echo Layman here, once you build and operate the system at peak providing the off-peak service they do costs very little due to work hour rules, the economics of finding people to work 3-4 hours during peak periods only, etc.

Add the fact that if the system didn't run off-peak it would be much less useful and fewer people would probably ride it at peak (land use would not be as intense as a transit-dependent lifestyle would be much less attractive).

So yes, if you look at $/trip by time period, peak is "subsidizing" off-peak, but the entire picture is much more complicated than that.

by MLD on Apr 18, 2012 2:26 pm • link • report

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