On his website, he has a pictorial of one of those mass transit revenue ratholes that seem to be so popular in districts where Democrats--and yes, it's usually Democrats--believe they know better than you how you should be getting around the town. And money is no object for the People's Transportation (we've got one ourselves out here, rolling down clean electric rails with about five people in each car.)

Note the strange artwork and glorious architecture, also done at public expense.

Lileks states that the operating budget requires a subsidy of $11,000 per passenger per year. This would make the payments on a $40,000 car for every passenger.

So it goes.