Light Rail Transit has a high operating cost per service hour
- Reality Check
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- February 11, 2013
A comparison of LRT operating costs per service hour vs the operating cost per service hour of SkyTrain:
| City | System | Operating cost per revenue service hour in 2011 |
| Calgary | C-Train LRT | $200 [1] |
| Salt Lake City | UTA TRAX | $124.01 [2][3] |
| Portland | MAX LRT | $187.55 [2] |
| Phoenix | Metro Light Rail | $180.35 [2][3] |
| Houston | METRO Rail | $200 [3] |
| Philadelphia | SEPTA Subway-Surface Trolley | $166.26 [2] |
| Boston | Green Line | $216.45 [2][3] |
| San Diego | Trolley | $137.67 [2][3] |
| Vancouver | SkyTrain (Expo/Millennium Line) | $76.14 [4] |
Footnotes
- Stated – Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Network Plan for Calgary, Calgary Transit, on page 28 of 72
- U.S. Federal Transit Administration – National Transit Database 2011 database – Compiled for easy viewing on About.com Guide
- National Transit Database presentation by the U.S. Federal Transit Administration – Graph on page 21
- Extrapolated value. Based on:
- 1.3 million annual service hour statement for TransLink rapid transit services, stated on 2011 Statutory Annual Report on page 19 – minus 91,250 Canada Line service hours (calculated, based on a standard service hour calculation formula used by all transit agencies).
- Expo/Millennium Line 2011 annual operations/maintenance costs, excluding capital asset amortization – 2011 financial & performance review, page 26
About SkyTrain for Surrey
SkyTrain for Surrey is the community organization that advocated for the Surrey-Langley SkyTrain extension. From our beginnings as a petition calling for the scrapping of a street-level LRT proposal, we grew into a community of like-minded folk, taking on various projects such as making SkyTrain an election issue in 2018 as a registered advocacy group. SkyTrain for Surrey continues to call for high-quality transit infrastructure projects serving Surrey, Delta and the Langleys.
Media Contact:
Daryl Dela Cruz – Founder, SkyTrain for Surrey
Phone: +1 604 329 3529, [email protected]