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Originally Posted by James Howard
If you look at it another way, a 3.4k ticket form Longford ends up costing about 1.7k after tax. If you take the approx 2 million cost of a railcar and divide that by 60 (for a 22k), you get about 33 grand for the price of a seat. So just to pay the capital cost of the seat excluding interest, labour, maintenance, and fuel, it would take about 20 years to pay it off.
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Whatever about the government paying all the capital costs, the seat gets used more than once per day, which will contribute to operating costs.