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Yes, Boston Public Schools has the second highest transportation budget per student in the country as a result. If I remember correctly it is ~25$/student/day. But one could argue this is the price to pay for increased diversity.

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Is that $25 per student overall or per student who uses school provided transportation services? If it's the former that is about a quarter billion in transportation costs annually.

per transported students. The transportation cost are more than 100 million per year.

Do you know off-hand how this compares to the rest of the system? I mean non-student public transport... maybe just busses? Per-rider and overall, ideally.

These are the figures from 2015 [1] Subway/bus fares are $2.75 each way (obviously lower with a monthly pass) which covers about 30% of the total so the cost per rider is ~$8 per trip. The overall figures include commuter rail but I'm just assuming that doesn't change the percentage covered by fares all that much. The MBTA carries about 1 million riders per weekday.

[1] https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/03/02/how-mbta-makes-...

Awesome, thanks. So maybe around 2/3 the cost per trip, compared to school busses, which seems plausible.

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