View Single Post
Old 01-31-2023, 09:46 AM   #414
gasman
Scoring Winger
 
Join Date: Apr 2010
Exp:
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by para transit fellow View Post
Cost of "person to stand there":

Rough numbers
45 Stations open 20 hrs a day 365 days a year. 328,500 service hours

Wage Cost of station attendants $25 -$30/hr (low estimate includes spares, spares for vacation coverage, time and a half for working stat holidays, part timer coverage etc)

Annual operation costs: $9.8 million/ yr

Need to sell additional 7000 tickets per day to pay for staff presence

Transit safety requires a multi sector approach. The transit department cannot fix this without other agencies.
I don't know.... $10MM is kind of chump change isn't it.... we had no issue dolling out $100MM + an additional $168MM in loans to turn 20% of the bus fleet to electric.

It's not an impossible problem to solve, we just need to figure out what our priorities are.
gasman is offline   Reply With Quote