ION Phase 2 - Cambridge's Light Rail Transit

[dtkvictim]

The bigger that gap is between average weekday ridership and the threshold for an LRT to be more cost-effective than a bus route when an LRT starts service, the more money you'll be wasting each year and the more years it will take to get to and exceed that threshold.

You're viewing the cost as directly pertaining to running transit exclusively, rather than the cost of new or accelerated improvements elsewhere in civic life in addition to running transit. I'm not saying if that cost is worth it or not, but you're missing what the people arguing with you are saying.