Ridership is a bit of a misnomer used by naysayers of public transit in America. The ROI from the vast majority of large public transit projects is from the tax base created around rail stops. The anti-transit folks (not saying you are) like to skip over this stat because it doesn’t help their illogical argument. When one factors the tax revenue base created by the billions in density real estate projects, the “cost” of transit drops significantly. ONCE the density occurs which can occur in parallel with the transit project, ridership jumps dramatically. Sometimes a bit of chick & egg