AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Personally, I think the funding should be divided up 50% based on population and 50% based on ridership. This avoids the "rich get richer" issue BurlOak raised, while at the same time acknowledging that systems with larger ridership do have larger maintenance needs.
I'm not going to let the great be the enemy of the good though. This is certainly good news.
Actually I would be against that - simply because the realities of funding/running big city transit (and we don't have all that many big cities) is a completely different beast from smaller ones. Hard to compare the capital requirements of say new buses to a new subway build, for example.
That kind of equity issue can be compensated through having different pots of money - those communities may have maintenance needs that are more general infrastructure/maintenance than transit related - fund it through that.
AoD