By any metric, Tri Met is broke.  Fares do not come anywhere close to costs, they ask for more payroll tax as often as they can get away with it and their employee benefits and salaries are unsustainable.

But.... as long as they can get capital infusions to lay rails they can cook the books so it looks like they are healthy.  If they quit building, the entire Tri Met juggernaut crashes.  That's why they continue to propose rail projects above all others.

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