inefficient and ineffective. The idea has taken hold that public transit is a among many transportation professionals subsidized monopoly which is inherently inefficient. Numerous studies suggest that public transit subsidies have been siphoned off by higher labor costs and inefficient service expansions. Indeed, such transit studies conducted in the later “efficiency” 1970s and early 1980s so impressed transit policy boards and transit managers that nearly 20 years later transit managers still think of A valid concern for efficiency has eclipsed interest in policy missions. little else. transit’s public
inefficient and ineffective. The idea has taken hold among many transportation professionals that public transit is a subsidized monopoly which is inherently inefficient. Numerous studies suggest that public transit subsidies have been siphoned off by higher labor costs and inefficient service expansions. Indeed, such transit “efficiency” studies conducted in the later 1970s and early 1980s so impressed transit policy boards and transit managers that nearly 20 years later transit managers still think of little else. A valid concern for efficiency has eclipsed interest in transit’s public policy missions.