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I like the idea but so far it seems like it's $40 per customer per journey.

>According to Metro, Via’s cost per ride to the operator is about $10. Compared to Metro’s systemwide cost per boarding of $4.92, that’s expensive. But high ridership bus routes have a lower cost per boarding than low ridership routes, meaning Via’s costs are not wildly out of line with costs associated with low-rider routes.

What am I missing there?

maybe they thought of 4 passengers? Building more roads costs a lot more when they are a billion dollars a mile in Seattle (i90, 30 years ago). Or the 520 bridge.

We need to do all the things to make traffic in Seattle better, light rail, buses, road improvements, last mile transit services. Would we really be better off if we dropped all this "wasteful" transit spending and had really worse traffic? Of course not.

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