Link Light Rail Costs

Link Light Rail initial cost is $2.3 billion and the most a ticket will cost is $2.5 dollars so if everyone who get's on pays the maximum amount it means that 920,000,000 or 920 million people must ride for the system to merely pay off initial constructing costs. I am not even going to factor in the cost of maintenance and upkeep plus the people who work on it who need their pennies, all of which makes a positive earning on the light rail impossible but I digress. With 920 million riders needed, 2.4 million people in Seattle, .7 million in Tacoma, and the Sea-Tac airport on a yearly basis has 32 million people arriving and departing every year, there are a total of 35.1 million people at either end, so every person needs to ride the train from one end to the other a total of 27 times to pay for the initial cost to build the link light rail. However that does not factor into the ability to max out the monetary abilities of the Link Light Rail as only a small number of people can ride at any one time. Moving on, 200 passengers fit into one car there are 35 cars in the fleet, but that doesn't really factor in either, and there is an average of 10 minutes between each train departure, so every 10 minutes 400 people can cram onto 2 cars, one heading north and the other south, therefore 2.3 million sets of 10 minutes are needed, equating of course to 23 million minutes of run time needed to pay off the cost, that's 38333.3 repeating hours of run time, and with the light rail open 20 hours Monday through Saturday and 18 hours on Sunday making 138 hours of run time a week, thusly making 277.7 weeks necessary, 5.34 years of capacity cars traveling up and down the rail system just to pay for the initial cost, not including the additional money needed for upkeep, utilities, and people. These are the facts with as little opinion as I can muster, I do not personally believe that this was a worthwhile investment. The only way this could become worthwhile would be if there were many contributions from the private sector to help pay for it, or even a generous tax deduction for riding due to the fact that it is currently tax and future tax dollars that have paid for it.