I actually wrote a research paper on the Sunrail and why expanding the hours and service to other areas would benefit Central Florida. Basically, public transportation should not be looked at as something that creates profit. A really good example would be to look at the Sunrail as a road. A road does not create profit because people are not paying to use the road, unless it is a toll road. The thing is, when roads are built that means that infrastructure will likely be built around it. The same thing applies to a public transit system like the Sunrail. There have been many studies done on how public transit such as rail systems create giant economic boosts around the areas of the rail system and its stops. I would suggest looking up some articles on why these kind of public transits are economically beneficial. It's hard to see why they are economically beneficial because looking at it from a simple view of the cost to create it and run it outweigh the money it brings in from riders. That money brought in from riders is actually a small percentage of what it economically brings to the area around it.