Washington DC's terrible Metro accident
-- yikes, I used to ride the red line every day -- made we want to go
look up information about the city's train system. So I went to the National Transit Database
historical tables to see what I could find. Had there been big changes
in services? A drop off in funding? Not really. Here are the total
operating expenses of the Metro over the past ten years, in millions
and billions of dollars:
Of
course, this needs to be adjusted for population growth, increased
usage and expansion. So here's the growth in total services provided
(in billions of miles traveled):
I combined the two to get the dollars spent per mile traveled. That's increased too:
