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Old Posted Feb 12, 2013, 11:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Doady View Post
Another factor in cost per boarding is passenger turnover. It might be the riders on the 99 travel shorter distance, get on/off more frequently, and so there are higher boardings relative to capacity and cost.
Most passengers on the 99 actually travel quite long distance. In fact, the turnover is 79%.


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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse View Post
It would also be interesting to compare the efficiency between the streetcar routes in Toronto to bus routes in Toronto rather than comparing bus routes and streetcar routes in an entirely different region/jurisdiction.
Just divide the cost by customers on that TTC document, and you can see the street car is, for most case, less efficient than the bus routes. I'm no saying streetcars are bad, but at least this is how TTC runs them (and I do believe they can run better than that!). For older version of this data, TTC actually shows the cost recovery for each of these routes, and most streetcar routes actually had recovery in the 30s to 40s.
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