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Patronage Comparison with Gold Coast Light Rail

GCLR is a 13km / 16 stations light rail line operating 19hr on weekdays and 24hr on weekends. Services vary from 2 to 8 per hr. Full length ticket is around $4.10. Revenue was taken at $2.50 per full length trip*).
Gold Coast patronage shown here is the revised-down forecast of July2014, Original project forecast was 45,000 full length passengers per day.
*) corresponding to a claimed $23M yearly loss for missing out on 25,000 passengers per day

...TRtoEW's patronage assumptions are achievable...

Assumed Patronage 
this project


Gold Coast

550 passengers per hr
970
6,590 passengers per day
20,000


----  boarding each departing tram at every station  ----
2.8 passengers
5.6 


----  Patronage as percent of capacity  ----
16%
27%


----  Anticipated daily ticket revenue per track kilometer  ----
$550
$1,940
based on $2.50 per full lenth trip
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