Of course each person has a specific limit of paying upto an amount. But not everyone riding a bus would be willing to pay the amount that you're willing to pay. That's why most of the BRT systems work on "Consumer Surplus Capturing" method. I.e. recover the fixed operational costs by luring as many commuters as possible.
18 km long Multan metro was completed at a cost of Rs 30 billionAt first, they said Rs.14bn now they are saying RS.40+ will be the cost. Well, that escalated quickly!
That's what we call a feeder route. These 9 meters will be feeders to the main route. However, including the feeder commuting fair in BRT's fair rather than collecting it separately would keep the passengers using specifically feeder routes, away from it.
CNG is much more economical than HSD in terms of mileage per units consumed, even after accounting for its maintenance component shorter communing. If HSD would have been more viable as the plan says it, the all of the urban transport in Karachi would have found it out way before the planners and shifted their buses back to HSD instead of operating it on CNG.
This actually what we call bundle pricing. Every potential passenger would effectively be paying Rs 10 more (since the ticket would be for three trips while a complete commuting would involve two trips). You take out that, its roughly priced at Lahore metro. So this "overpay" would create the additional space for them but would undermine the commuters.
They're working on it, ground work is underway but no deadline so as to when it would complete. But if they continue on with it I believe somewhere early next year
If you watch the documentary,feeder routes will merge onto the main route via direct service as it was explained via an animation
Punjab govt must learn from paper project ? oye metros se qaumain nahee banteen , yeh paisay ka wastage hai . who says this ?
Lahore metro is just 27 km's long and as it's mentioned that distance based fare collection rule will be applied and Rs 50 is the maximum fare for distance more than 40 km's so the commuters wouldn't be overpaying
They hired consultants and studied all major BRT's in the world,if they are saying it then it must be viable.Anyways it was preliminary design suggested a year ago.Final design could have been changed by now.
Well if you're not able to recover the fixed costs (because of large-sized buses on Main BRT), despite charging higher fair, there is a good chance that you end up making even more loss than the system which operates at lower fair but achieves higher passenger occupancy per bus.
There's no consultant appointed as such (looking at the project site of ADB), the only pre-consultancy done so far is by ADB.
