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[email protected] · February 14th 14, 09:25 PM posted to uk.transport.london

In article ,
(Paul Corfield) wrote:

On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:51:17 -0600,
wrote:

Why are the heritage routes so expensive? It's not as if they don't run
on busy routes.

Route 9 is never busy with the RMs - it only runs every 20 mins.

The RMs are old, there are twice as many vehicles as are needed to run
the routes and there are two staff members. Staff costs are typically
60% of bus operating costs so having 2 will skew the contract costs.
The hours of operation are also a bit odd which means that you need
two shifts to run it but neither will be of optimal length thereby you
have reduced scheduling efficiency. The relatively low number of
miles operated will probably skew the "per mile" numbers too.

The costs per mile are out of kilter with other zone 1 routes.

Route 15 awarded in 2009 is £5.37 per mile.
Heritage 15 awarded in 2010 is £17.54 per mile.
Route 9 awarded in 2010 is £5.97 per mile
Heritage 9 awarded in 2010 is £20.02 per mile

Route 9's numbers will undoubtedly be different now the NB4Ls have
been introduced with part crew operation. TfL do not publish contract
variation costs.

(source - TfL website tender results page)

Those are gross costs with no account of fare income?

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Colin Rosenstiel