I think you'll find users and riders are different. A return journey is classed as two rides.
ok, my question is: does metro make any money or at least break even or does government fund it? (daily use of existing line, not further construction)
I think you'll find users and riders are different. A return journey is classed as two rides.
ok, my question is: does metro make any money or at least break even or does government fund it? (daily use of existing line, not further construction)
The average daily for the SD Metro L1 is 100,000 trips at DOP$20 a pop = RD$2 mil a day in revenues = RD$730,000,000.00 a year X US$ = +/- 19.3 million, the gov provides a subsidy of US$25 million for the Metro operations until Line 2 is in operations and the use of Natural Gas is 100% employed by the power generators of the electrical supply the system uses is achieved.
Until now the revenues from L1 are being invested to build the L2, leaving the gov subsidy in place until the L2 enters full operations.
The largest chunk of costs related to the operations of the L1 is gulped down by electrical expenses. The long term plan is to invest into gov owned wind farms that will supply the bulk of the Metro system for daily operations, leaving the rest to a mixture from the natural gas fired generators, solar plants and hydroelectric power dams when called for.
The average daily for the SD Metro L1 is 100,000 trips at DOP$20 a pop = RD$2 mil a day in revenues = RD$730,000,000.00 a year X US$ = +/- 19.3 million, the gov provides a subsidy of US$25 million for the Metro operations until Line 2 is in operations and the use of Natural Gas is 100% employed by the power generators of the electrical supply the system uses is achieved.
Until now the revenues from L1 are being invested to build the L2, leaving the gov subsidy in place until the L2 enters full operations.
The largest chunk of costs related to the operations of the L1 is gulped down by electrical expenses. The long term plan is to invest into gov owned wind farms that will supply the bulk of the Metro system for daily operations, leaving the rest to a mixture from the natural gas fired generators, solar plants and hydroelectric power dams when called for.
Can you answer the f_ucking question?
I'm sure it takes a lot more than US$50,000 a day to run the Metro.
When you add in what it cost to build, the debt incurred, what it's going to cost to finish and how many people it serves today and projected in the future, it makes you wonder.
Plenty of contractors are still owed money from L1 construction.
As for the windfarms... Maybe next time they should invest in wind turbines that they can actually transport, instead of letting them rot in the port for years, as nobody had thought about how to transport something that large.
the answer is clear as daylight!
The answer is NO.
I doubt that the Metro will ever make money... it will have to be subsidized like the NYC subway. However, I think that this was very forward thinking of Leonel to go ahead with this despite the opposition. SD is becoming a huge traffic jam. But if you want people to give up commuting in cars, you will have to offer them an alternative. The practice that the publicos have of stopping wherever they want is going to have stop.. ditto the parking on the street.
There's not a single contractor owed money for the work on the L1 work! Not one! The ones owed money are those that committed to the work for the L2 and agreed under the term of their contracts.
Santiago-Santo Domingo high speed rail, which only takes a high school student a few minutes to see the flow of buses that carry passengers all week long from both ends respectively. Not even to mention the dual use of the tracks for containers cargo from and to the ports and industrial parks...
The concept of a goods line seems a good idea - but to then take it to a high speed line at 200+kph is a waste of money - who can afford and who really needs to get between Santago and SD in 30mins. Why bother to discuss - you are nothing but a proferssional troll Pichardo.
I doubt that the Metro will ever make money... it will have to be subsidized like the NYC subway. However, I think that this was very forward thinking of Leonel to go ahead with this despite the opposition. SD is becoming a huge traffic jam. But if you want people to give up commuting in cars, you will have to offer them an alternative. The practice that the publicos have of stopping wherever they want is going to have stop.. ditto the parking on the street.