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> BART has a carriage shortage so they try to shave off cars from longer routes This is just crazy. Compared to the cost of new track some additional rolling s
by sho 8y ago
> BART has a carriage shortage so they try to shave off cars from longer routes
This is just crazy. Compared to the cost of new track some additional rolling stock should be almost insignificant. You couldn't come up with a better example of penny wise, pound foolish...
- chipotle_coyote 8y agoBART is in the process of replacing all their cars now, as nearly all of the ones they're running are long past their expected end of service dates.
- magduf 8y agoThe rolling stock is actually a very significant cost of the system. In DC, they spent $886 million for Kawasaki to build them 428 railcars in one contract, which comes out to just over $2M per car (and a single train normally has 8 cars). According to Wikipedia, they now have 500 of these 7000-series cars in service; that's $1B.