Interesting Tom, at 2.50 per ride that's lower than I would expect for NY, here it's 1.35 for a student for the initial zone, adding zones adds something like 20-30 cents, if I rode the bus instead of my commute I believe it would be 1.85 but when I factor in that the bus ride takes close to two hours, and my bike ride takes about one riding makes much more sense, technically speaking other than maintenance costs etc, it would cost me less to drive my car than to take the bus. I'd discuss a comparison of of transport values with AF but we've already beat that horse into the ground a few times.

But I will throw this in about high speed rail, we have a project going on here and when it's "done"(aka never) the cost of a one way one time pass is supposed to be 20+ (that's for from my area, to a more affluent area about 60 miles south or so) which is somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 times what the current bus cost is for even further (Into San Francisco itself),this area of California is trying to play catch up.. and failing.