The following is taken directly from the AG's report...
Payments to operator for providing the service
3.3.167 Since the inception of the arrangement, the Department has paid
$20.3 million to the operator in relation to the provision of rail
services as show in
Table 3.3M.
TABLE 3.3M
PAYMENTS TO OPERATOR, SEPTEMBER 1993 TO
FEBRUARY 1997
($million)
Passenger
Period reimbursements Subsidies Total
Sept. 1993 to June 3.6 0.7 4.3
1994
1994-95 4.8 0.9 5.7
1995-96 4.9 1.1 6.0
1996-97 (to Feb. 3.5 0.8 4.3
1997)
Total 16.8 3.5 20.3
.......end
So WCR has in fact been subsidised 3.5M since it's inception, plus what it
receives from passenger fares. No wonder it's doing so well
Check out the AG's report at..
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~vicaud1/mp97/mp97summ.htm
-- Stuart Thyer Gs1000s Photographer University of Melbourne DoD No-1724 777- Relation of the beast_____________