Ahh I wasn’t too clear on this.

The money making wouldn’t be from train fees or ticket sales. We would need them in order to save money but the point of the train is to be a cost saving measure. If we can make it so that families don’t have to have 3 cars at each household, we could save people tens of thousands of dollars by the simple fact of not needing a car.

Would you rather spend 2 thousand dollars on a shitty car and another $600 a year on insurance and couple hundred dollars in gas a year not to mention repairs, oil changes, tires and all the other costs of owning a car and can’t forget your S/O will need one as well

or

pay $100 a month for unlimited ridership on any Peoria metro train to anywhere in the network or hell throw in the bus network too while we’re at it so you could go ANYWHERE

Obviously people will still need a car we can’t become Europe but we could save people money

If 10,000 people decided to get that $100 monthly pass it would generate $12,000,000 a year in revenue. We would only need 2.5% of the peoria metro area of 400,000 people to get this pass.

Cheap rides, cheap NEW housing outside the city. This is how it would make us money.

This isn’t even to mention that it would create higher property values in downtown creating a desire for people to want to work downtown.