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Break even is $45 000 CAD per hour? I think you need to rethink your math.

The subway runs 20 hour a day from Monday to Saturday and 18 hours a day on Sunday that's 138 hours a week or 7176 hours a year.

The TTC cost $1.795 Billion to run last year. Divide that by 7176 and you get $250 139.35 per hour to run the entire system / 69 stations and you get $3625 per hour for each station to run.

The fares for the neighbouring city of Barrie are $3 for a single zone and $6 for two zones on route 90.

For York Region (just south of Innisfil), the regular fare is $3-4.50.
In Toronto the regular fare is $3.25 nominal, $3 if paid by token or card.

Agreed, the cost of food, shelter, clothing, and transportation is going up like crazy, while electronics go down.

* Summer of 2007, I bought a 50 inch TV (1366x768 resolution) for $3500 Canadian. Today, 48-to-50 inch TVs (1920x1080 resolution) can be had for $350. That's a 90% drop in price.

* Stuff you really need, like food, shelter, clothing, and transportation has been constatnly increasing. I remember my first car, a new 1974 Ford Maverick 4-door. It cost $4,070 including taxes. Nowadays a compact 4-seater is at least $20,000

http://transit.toronto.on.ca/s...

TTC Fare Structure, July 1, 1954:
> Adult day fares: 15cents cash; 5 tickets for 50cents 20 tickets for $2.
> Children: 5cents cash; 6 tickets for 25cents
> Scholars: 10 tickets for 55cents

http://ttc.ca/Fares_and_passes...

As of January, the fare structure will be
> Adult (cash) $3.5
> Adult (token or Presto-card) $3.00
> "S" fare (Senior or Student) (cash) $2.10
> "S" fare (Senior or Student) (ticket or Presto-card) $2.05

Food, clothing, and housing (own or rent) have also skyrocketed. See http://www.thepeoplehistory.co... for some scarey numbers. To summarize... the current "2%" number is an an outright lie. The real number is a lot worse for people in the working class.

Ask the cities that have transport tunnels why they haven't built any more.

Incomplete list of cities surprised to learn that they are not building new transportation tunnels right now:

New York
London
Delhi
Toronto
Beijing (multiple lines)
San Francisco
Los Angeles (just getting started)
Paris (multiple lines)
Seoul (including a maglev line)
...and so on. Those are just the ones I'm immediately aware of.

They already are working on that: Automatic Train Control.

http://www3.ttc.ca/About_the_TTC/Projects_and_initiatives/New_Subway_Train/index.jsp

This train seats 404 (heh). The total would be 1,598. I bet in actual usage it exceeds 2,000-2,200 well-sardined people.

188 KJ per person, versus 1 MJ per person in a car (seeing as the average car around here carries 1.0000001 people), in rush hour.

That's a six car train. A ten-car would have almost 2700 people in it by 'spec'.

The TTC web-publishes maps and routes and suggested times that each bus will go by. They also have a data system for each bus to report exactly where it is. (Not published, but that's what scanners and software are for.) Combine.

I want a system that tells me when the bus is a couple of blocks away and I can leave the mall and walk to the stop and get on. I suppose it would need a GPS card as well. So be it, I remember what cell-phones were like cira 1984.

Either that or migrate to California where the jasmine blooms in March, but the exit signs are green...