Would our lower cost have anything to do with the relatively short bus routes / travel lengths relative to the fare paid resulting in more revenue per kilometer?

The cost per operating hour does not make any consideration of revenues, it is purely the expense side of things.

As far as I can tell, one of the main reason we do well with cost per operating hour comes from being able to operate different sized buses on routes.

We do seem to benefit from having higher use of transit than most cities the same size, which means we should be seeing some benefits from being able spread out over more hours of operations.

BC Transit also has a primary yard that is very well situated for the network, this decreases deadheading which are lost hours.

I think there is also a benefit coming from the way BC Transit amortizing capital costs, but I am not certain of it.

Finally, and I can not be sure I am comparing apples to apples, but BC Transit here seems to have had a good track record in keeping admin costs lower than elsewhere, but since I do not know what goes into that here and in Halifax, Saskatoon or Winnipeg, it is hard to know if BC Transit does better.

If I was the local transit commission, I would be shouting to the world that the transit system here is cheaper to operate than other ones.

Quote: Would our lower cost have anything to do with the relatively short bus routes / travel lengths relative to the fare paid resulting in more revenue per kilometer?

Any idea how much these new lit up bus stops are costing? They just showed up one day in my neck of the woods. That lit up round sign on the top looks like a Target!

Yeah I was wondering about the one I saw outside the McD's on Pandora. First of all Glass? Really? Here? and second it has Pandora Green written all over it. Now there is a plaque at Cook and Pandora which calls this triangular strip Harris Green and so is the neighbourhood. Where did the name Pandora Green come from?