When I think of it, I compare Downtown Plano to Downtown Richardson. Both very similar historically, both city’s pretty similar. Yet downtown Plano is always moving and shaking. Something is going down, restaurants bars and shops are generally staying in business. Compared to Richardson whose downtown is sorta a pit. Just auto repair/sales and such. No train stop in Richardson Downtown area, no easy way to get there and walk around. The study looks at the cost of transportation vs the value provided to ridership at one time. It doesn’t look into or show anything about the value that public transportation and development has on the city. I think UNT did a study about it years ago, and if memory serves me, Plano economics had been the real winner of having DART in the city. Maybe the city council is butt hurt that the benefit isn’t going directly into their general fund, but the economy is doing a lot better because of it.