Does American transit not at least attempt to serve the "drunk person" market? Or the "will be getting drunk so won't drive into town" market?
Infrastructure isn't much of an operational cost, more of a capital cost. Drivers are the most expensive aspect of operating costs as far as I know
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It's still a cost though, at least if accounted for properly. Privatised UK TOCs are almost all subsidised even when on pure operations they pay a premium. (The outdated figures I've seen show only the (then) South West Trains and Southern actually making a surplus.)
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