Milwaukee_F40C wrote:Per train? That seems insane. Does train revenue even come close to $12,500?
I am assuming that it is a monthly fee per train added ... not a per trip fee.
$12,500 per train per month would work out to $300k per year for both trains.
$12,500 per train per weekday trip would work out to $6.5 million per year for both trains.
NICTD currently pays less than $7 million per year for all of its trains. ($7 million is what NICTD will pay in 2016.)
METRA pays NICTD $3.7 per year for service to Hegewisch.
The additional service increase NICTD's weekday usage from 35 to 37 trains serving Chicago. Weekend service remains 18 trains. Roughly 211 trains per week (before the Sunrise Express) 10,972 trains per year would put the per trip cost at $637 (2016 rate).
$12,500 per train per month works out to about $576 per trip. Which sounds about right for a scale that increases to 2016.