California’s transit systems are a robbery in progress. The victims are California’s taxpayers, and soon may include anyone who owns a single-family home within a half-mile of a transit stop.

Los Angeles County residents are already paying four separate half-percent sales taxes to fund the financial sinkhole that is Metro, officially known as the Los Angeles County Transportation Authority.

A 2018 report prepared for the Southern California Council of Governments noted that despite the heavy investment – L.A. County’s 2016 Measure M tax increase was $120 billion by itself – “in absolute terms the region’s transit ridership reached its postwar peak in 1985.”

Ridership in Southern California continued to bounce along at a lower level in the 1990s and 2000s, trended down in 2007 and then f

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