Re: Melbourne - the second most liveable city
  Tony Bailey


Not passengers per km. p/km

BUT Passenger km, pkm

Tony Bailey

> On 14 Aug 2018, at 5:52 pm, Prescott lenkaprescott@...> wrote:

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> It's very very difficult to get that across all systems. In fact UITP has found it so difficult, they've chosen instead to measure passengers per route km as the standard.

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> On that basis, on last available figures, Prague is about 2.535 million passengers per route km, Budapest about 2.530, Vienna about 1.367 and Melbourne about 815,000. On Sydney trams' typical figures of 300 million per annum I would estimate it at about 1.1 million in 1939 (including Manly) when system length was about 250+ km. For Sydney's trains (if the new patronage figure is true) I would estimate about 500,000 passengers per route km (800 km system).

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> Tony P

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> On Tuesday, 14 August 2018 16:20:59 UTC+10, Tony Bailey wrote:

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> If you completely ignore the passenger km figure, which I’m sure you know is the real measure.

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> Tony Bailey

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> > On 14 Aug 2018, at 4:14 pm, Prescott lenkap...@... <javascript:>> wrote:

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> > And heavy rail is supposed to be the heavy lifting mode!

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> > Tony P

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