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Originally Posted by nname
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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Average cost recovery for the entire streetcar system was 49% in 2005/06 compared to 50% cost recovery for the bus network.
501 Queen - 49%
504 King - 44%
505 Dundas - 61%
506 Carlton - 51%
510 Spadina - 53%
511 Bathurst - 43%
512 St Clair - 45%
http://www.stevemunro.ca/wp-content/...stats0506c.pdf
And no, I'm not arguing in favour for a streetcar to replace the 99 bus in Vancouver, but still...