Re: City Rail Who would buy it anyway ?

[james_ccj@my-deja.com]

In article <P_EE4.59249$3b6.233372@ozemail.com.au>,
"Mitch" <dont.reply.to.this.news@or.else.com> wrote:
> Anyone who could manage it would do a great job. Imagine this..
instead of
> getting new rolling stock every year, the old ones are actually [shock
> horror] cleaned and maintained properly. This means that the
apholstery is
> replaced, the train is ungrafitiised. Another thing they might think
about
> is single fares. There would be a set entry price for the railway [say
> $3.00] and you could go anywhere. It would not change for children,
adults
> or pensioners, a set fee. This works in NYC. This would effectively
wipe out
> ticket staff reducing costs greatly. Tickets would not be needed, only
> turnstyles for entry [put in CityRail coin, and walk through] and exit
[just
> walk out].
The fare level is reasonable right now and should be able to get into
black.


> CityRail's land alone would be worth a LOT of money. A lot of prime
real
> estate.. and not so prime real estate.
And advertisments on train/walls of the station, billboards, paint over
advertiment on exterior of trains(like Melbourne's trams). Hong
Kong's metro, the rents from hring station building to shops
and advertisments on trains/stations contribute more then half of the
profit! Most of the richest companies in Japan are suburban rail
operators in Tokyo and Osaka.  Unlike Japan and Hong Kong, state
governemnt subsidy cityrail service therefore passengers can enjoy
cheaper service, but private company should be able to reduce the
subsidies while keep current fare level and offer better services.

Just make sure NSW state government would ask the new company to order
rollingstocks from local manufactory. On the other hand would Carl
Scully happy to sell Cityrail/Countrylink/Freight Corp??


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Cheers
James


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