If the result of articles like this is to make people gun shy of building new transit, it's incredibly damaging. Even if the benefit per rider seems low (and it's not as low as they make it sound in this article) you have to aggregate over millions of people taking many millions of trips over many years. It's hard for transit projects to not be worth the cost, even if we're paying a lot more than we should be.

That said, I'd vote for a candidate on any level of government who was serious about getting infrastructure cost in this country, and this city in particular, under control. This project needed to get built but we could have so much more a lot faster if we didn't have the highest building costs in the world.