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Originally Posted by undo
€3 million per death; that's a lot of trips on the Luas.
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Ok, so maximum fare home from the city centre is €2.20 during the day.
€5-2.20 = €2.80 which I'm calling the nighttime surcharge - what LUAS needs per passenger from the government to run a night time service at daytime prices
€3 million / €2.80 = 1,071,000 people safely home on the LUAS for the cost of one road death.
120 deaths due to alcohol every year on the roads, so I'm pretty sure you save one life for every 1,071,000 people you safely get home. (I have figures, but there's too much of a margin of error to put them up here.)
I'm really tempted to push the case for this when I get back to Ireland.