hard · GRE Verbal
City transit board: Ridership on our subway system fell 12% last year, while ridership on the city's buses rose 5%. Since the subway and buses serve the same city, the drop in subway ridership must be due to former subway riders switching to buses. We should therefore add subway cars to win those riders back.
The transit board's argument depends on which of the following assumptions?
- The number of people who stopped riding the subway is not substantially larger than the number of additional bus riders gained.
- Buses are a distinctly more comfortable and pleasant mode of transportation than subways are for the large majority of commuters.
- The total cost of adding new subway cars is lower than the fare revenue that has been lost from the declining subway ridership.
- No new subway or light-rail lines were opened in any of the immediately neighboring cities during the course of the past year.
- Ordinary bus fares charged across the city are noticeably lower than the standard subway fares that riders must pay.
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