I love how there’s already talk about making it run both directions again. Almost like making it not do that was a stupid idea 🙄
I’m going to say no.
It will increase costs which will no doubt be passed on to passengers via a ticket prices increase, which in turn will make people ride less lowering their revenue.
Not quite. Myki and paper ticket fares are set by PTV/the DTP under the jurisdiction of the state government. They generally only increase in line with inflation once yearly. Fare revenue is then split up amongst the companies, which I believe is a preset percentage for metro and Yarra trams, and just based on patronage for the rest (but don’t quote me on that).
I suppose in a roundabout way we do pay through it, since the operators receive a set rate as part of their contract to deliver services, as well as a small part of Myki revenue, but it isn’t really being passed along - more like they get the same amount they always would’ve, but now less goes back to corporate and the shareholders. They aren’t a charity, so would never run the network at a loss, it’s just that instead of making, say, $100,000,000 per year in profit, now they’ll only make $75,000,000 per year in profit
I tried to get on the 35 recently while in Melbourne. Right from the start of the loop at Waterfront City. It didn’t show for 3 scheduled departures. I phone the information number to ask if it was running, “yes, it will be there in 5 minutes”… “are you sure, its not been here the last two scheduled times?”…" yes absolutely it will be there". Surprise, it didn’t show.
I don’t mind things not running, life happens… but don’t feed bad info to visitors.