More people rode this same system in 1956 and I seriously doubt they had all the routes and trains they have available now.

The subsidy on fares is such that fares themselves only pay forty percent of the cost to run the agency.

So there is an upside and downside to all of this, the upside is more people use it, the downside as they do it costs everyone more.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/20/nyregion/delays-and-costs-...