I benefit from public transit systems that work for their users, so I’m not opposed to taxes subsidizing mass transit systems where the population density is such that it makes sense to do so to get people to work, school, take care of needs (like getting food and health care services), and to engage in leisure/discretionary spending activity such as to fly on mileage runs.

Mass transit fare hikes act like a regressive tax hit more than an increase in taxes due under a progressive tax rate structure does. And public transit fare hikes do me no good, and arguably the public transit fare hikes do the users of public transit a disservice by depressing the needed user volume to better fill up the system and the coffers of the transit system.