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Posted by Stephen Bauman on Tue Oct 10 09:09:44 2023, in response to Re: Extending the SAS across 125th on the table, posted by Jackson Park B Train on Tue Oct 10 05:03:56 2023. About the fare box recovery ## in general...before covid, Caltrain before covid, CTA L before covid, are all nice, but obsolete as ridership is nowhere near as high.I was interested in comparing operating cost per unit of service delivered. Fares were not my interest for this comparison. That's why I chose 2019. Operating procedures were changed because of Covid. I believe they might have skewed the results from the perceived "normal" and the "nirvana" to which public transit operators hope to return. I was primarily interested in bus operations. You may find the NTD's Service spreadsheet useful for comparing rail operations. They include train hours/miles as well as vehicle hours/miles. Ironically in BART's case... BART also came in low in terms of cost per VRM (lower cost --> more service per dollar). One big reason is its high operating speed. Divide VRM by VRH, if it's not a separate column. It was less impressive in cost per VRH. One needs to look at the overall picture in evaluating whether one is getting his money's worth from the FRR measure. One reason for BART's high operating speed is its relatively long distance between stations. This means that riders in other cities who walk to the station must take a bus to BART. Buses have much higher operating costs for capacity per unit service. What BART may be doing is outsourcing a more expensive public transit service. BART's bottom line may look better but the local bus operations are suffering financially. Just a thought. One of my current studies is evaluating what I call a transit oasis, as opposed to transit desert. In a transit oasis, there's a 5 minute walk to a bus and a 10 minute walk to a subway. There will be a bus available within a 10 minute window from the start of the walk. There will be a subway available within a 20 minute window from the start of the walk. I'm taking snapshots every 5 minutes from midnight to 2355. NYC comes out surprisingly well. About 95% of its residents live within a transit oasis, between 6am and 10pm. That figure goes down to around 60% in some boroughs during the graveyard shift. I wonder how the San Francisco area would fare with such a measure. |