VTA expected to sell 2,500 49ers train tickets to Levi's, have only sold 11

49er's fans board a VTA light rail train as they leave Levi's Stadium during halftime of the first preseason football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Denver Broncos in Santa Clara, CA, Sunday, August 17, 2014. less 49er's fans board a VTA light rail train as they leave Levi's Stadium during halftime of the first preseason football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Denver Broncos in Santa Clara, CA, Sunday, ... more Photo: Michael Short, The Chronicle Buy photo Photo: Michael Short, The Chronicle Image 1 of / 12 Caption Close VTA expected to sell 2,500 49ers train tickets to Levi's, have only sold 11 1 / 12 Back to Gallery

The 49ers can count on 11 fans coming to tonight's game, and possibly no more.

Santa Clara VTA has only sold 11 49ers Express Train season passes so far, reports NBC Bay Area. They'd planned to sell 2,500 passes.

"It's not going as well as we hoped," VTA spokeswoman Stacey Hendler Ross told NBC Bay Area in the understatement of the year.

The 49ers Express Train passes are billed as a quicker way for fans to get to Levi's Stadium, although that claim has also come up short. VTA admitted that the express stadium trains are often stuck behind regular VTA trains, delaying them by three or four minutes each.

Express train tickets cost $149 per person for the full season or $20 per game. With the express train ticket, fans are allowed to board trains first (which sounds like a recipe for a French Revolution-style platform uprising).

Regular round-trip tickets are $4.

Since 2014, VTA told NBC Bay Area it has lost $500,000 a year running stadium service due to extra trains, extra drivers and overtime pay. They were hoping the express train packages would help them break even.

"We're sending people to the Niners games with taxpayer money," Hendler Ross told NBC. "And the 49ers have not stepped up to help us recover the costs.

"We think they could be doing something more to offset this service."