4.7 million to keep ticket machines going?

Someone is making a friggen fortune on these TVM's:

@apmargulies @transitsleuth Got it, bit.ly/zIDBLM . Yearly TVMs op/cap costs are $4.7M a year to collect $17M. 28% cost of collection

— TriMet Stalker (@TriMetStalker) December 21, 2012