[PRCo] First Harmony Car Enters Pittsburg

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On 11/11/2013 09:45, Dwight Long wrote:
> But your system invested in infrastructure so that you have no platform expense.
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> Pittsburgh, as you well know from your years there, rebuilt existing infrastructure and does not have that luxury.
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> Every time an additional train is run, since they lose money on a CRP basis, it costs PAT more on a net basis.
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> I strongly suspect that in Vancouver the marginal costs of adding a train are less, probably substantially less, than the revenue derived from it.
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Off-peak the number of roving attendants is close to how many drivers 
would be needed. The gain is in the peaks and football games/special 
events when trains can be added without extra staffing except for the 
augmented manual fare collection. Yes the marginal cost per extra train 
is low--so much so that reducing train size in the evenings is long 
gone. (Electricity here is all Hydro and relatively cheap.)

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