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Originally Posted by mr.x
I think they will have to start planning to buy more Canada Line trains in 2010. The twenty trains we have aren't going to cut it for very much longer at this rate. But the question is, who pays for the trains which cost $6-million each ($3-million each car)? And how many more trains? An order for more trains next year would mean the trains would be delivered here in early-2013 at the very latest.
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From what I understand from the documents, InTransitBC will be responsible to provide enough capacity to meet baseline demand (3522pphpd in 2010, 4801pphpd in 2012, going all the way up to 6328pphpd in 2040), while making sure the station is large enough to handle the upper-level demand (1.3x the baseline, which is 8227 by 2040). Any change beyond this capacity will require a change initiated by RAVCO, where there will be an agreement for paying the cost of upgrade and additional operating cost.
Base on my calculation, running a trainset with capacity of 334 at an interval of 3:10 gives
exactly the capacity of 6328pphpd, so you guess who will be paying for all the upgrades...?