Light Rail Transit has a high operating cost per service hour
- Reality Check
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- February 11, 2013
A comparison of light rail transit 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][5] |
Footnotes
- Stated – Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Network Plan for Calgary, Calgary Transit — p.28/72[↩]
- U.S. Federal Transit Administration – National Transit Database 2011 – Compiled for easy viewing on About.com[↩][↩][↩][↩][↩][↩]
- National Transit Database presentation by the U.S. Federal Transit Administration – graph on p.21[↩][↩][↩][↩][↩]
- Extrapolated value based on 1.3 million annual service-hour statement for TransLink rapid transit services (2011 Statutory Annual Report, p.19) — minus 91,250 Canada Line service hours, per 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, p.26)[↩]
Pictured in header: Portland MAX LRT
Reality Check
Reality Check is the online blog run by the founder of SkyTrain for Surrey, a BC-based community organization that has advocated for the expansion of the Vancouver SkyTrain system, including our successful advocacy for the under-construction Surrey-Langley SkyTrain extension.
Media Contact: Daryl Dela Cruz – Founder, SkyTrain for Surrey ・ Phone: +1 604 329 3529, [email protected]