https://corporate.vline.com.au/getattachment/cc310c6b-b9a2-4d13-bfdb-83de0c6f60ba/Annual-Report-2014-15
In June, V/Line started servicing the growing suburbs of Tarneit and Wyndham Vale using the newly completed $3.65 billion Regional Rail Link - the biggest change to the V/Line network in 10 years which saw a 30 per cent increase in V/Line’s weekday services.
At the same time we have been receiving new rolling stock at a rate of about one carriage per month, with a further 21 new carriages committed in this year’s budget. To support this unprecedented growth we will continue to assess and finesse our performance, and identify and implement improvements to deliver the services our customers deserve and expect.
Some numbers:Bendigo line traffic is lower than 2011-12 because of Sunbury electrification which started in Nov 2012.
Bendigo patronge down by 20% over 5 years. That is not good. People are either moving away or are leaving the rail network due to service issues.
V/Line operated a total of 71,654 train services and 65,104 coach services in 2014-15. Long distance services accounted for 12,923 of these and commuter line trains were 58,731. This represented a combined increase of 5.8 per cent on the previous year.
2013-2014 | 2014-2015 | Change | Trips | Passengers per service | |
Passengers | Trips | ||||
Rail | 13,002,311 | 13638486 | 5% | 71,654 | 190 |
Coach | 1472438 | 1410067 | -4% | 65,104 | 22 |
Some numbers:
Bendigo patronge down by 20% over 5 years. That is not good. People are either moving away or are leaving the rail network due to service issues.
V/Line's annual report for 2014/15 has been released. Total patronage is up to over 15 million customer trips. Subsidy per passenger is $20.17. And it has annual expenses of $621.9 million:
https://corporate.vline.com.au/getattachment/cc310c6b-b9a2-4d13-bfdb-83de0c6f60ba/Annual-Report-2014-15
I've always wondered why some government run country bus services are managed by Vline, while others are not.They're directly contracted by the government through PTV instead of being organised by V/line. Some of the routes are basically just mail and parcel runs being done by an 12-seat van but there's an incredibly large network of these buses running all across the state. Have a look on the PTV site under 'Regional Buses' - I bet there's heaps of bus services to small towns across Victoria that you had no idea existed, it makes an interesting read.
The daily service to Marysville, Alexandra and Eildon and the several times a week service from Bright to Omeo are two examples of rural bus services run on contracts to the state government with no apparent involvement by Vline and I'm sure there are dozens of others.
V/Line's annual report for 2014/15 has been released. Total patronage is up to over 15 million customer trips. Subsidy per passenger is $20.17. And it has annual expenses of $621.9 million:$20.17 is still far too high a subsidy.
https://corporate.vline.com.au/getattachment/cc310c6b-b9a2-4d13-bfdb-83de0c6f60ba/Annual-Report-2014-15
Is VLine a subcontractor for Australia Post in these situations??? Or is mail and parcel some sort of euphemism?I've always wondered why some government run country bus services are managed by Vline, while others are not.They're directly contracted by the government through PTV instead of being organised by V/line. Some of the routes are basically just mail and parcel runs being done by an 12-seat van but there's an incredibly large network of these buses running all across the state. Have a look on the PTV site under 'Regional Buses' - I bet there's heaps of bus services to small towns across Victoria that you had no idea existed, it makes an interesting read.
The daily service to Marysville, Alexandra and Eildon and the several times a week service from Bright to Omeo are two examples of rural bus services run on contracts to the state government with no apparent involvement by Vline and I'm sure there are dozens of others.
Really interesting question @freightgate.
2015 reports are not yet available, so here are the 2014 numbers. Disclaimer, this assumes that the entities are identical and therefore comparable, i.e. they make the same rollingstock payments, network use payments etc. I don't know enough and don't have the time to check this!
For NSW Trains, 2014 subsidy is $15.60/trip ($542m subsidy over 34.7m trips - NB intercity trips are 32.9m, regional are 1.8m but there are no breakdowns of the subsidy for intercity vs regional to see how much intercity and regional are individually subsidised.
http://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/b2b/publications/annual_reports/nsw-trains-annual-report-2013-14.pdf
Also, for Sydney Trains, 2014 subsidy is $4.22/trip ($1.186bn subsidy over 281.2m trips).
http://www.transport.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/b2b/publications/annual_reports/sydney-trains-annual-report-2013-14.pdf
Is VLine a subcontractor for Australia Post in these situations??? Or is mail and parcel some sort of euphemism?No, the situation is that a private operator, usually locals who might also run school buses, can be contracted by PTV to provide a service to passengers in addition to a regular freight or possibly Australia Post service that the contractor might already run; for example, the Henty Highway coach from Mildura to Horsham is a small bus that also provides a freight/parcels service along the way with 3 return services a week.
Ok, interesting. Its a great idea using the same vehicle for multiple purposes. Though you do need to question the subsidy and if that is indeed appropriate to be paying.Is VLine a subcontractor for Australia Post in these situations??? Or is mail and parcel some sort of euphemism?No, the situation is that a private operator, usually locals who might also run school buses, can be contracted by PTV to provide a service to passengers in addition to a regular freight or possibly Australia Post service that the contractor might already run; for example, the Henty Highway coach from Mildura to Horsham is a small bus that also provides a freight/parcels service along the way with 3 return services a week.
They're usually very low frequency services, sometimes only once or twice a week - if you are lucky they could be more frequent than that. I would be interested to see some of the statistics on the very low frequency routes; Denis Napthine was trying to get rid of quite a few a while ago but I think he gave up on the majority of his cuts. I think it's a good thing that if you needed to go to (say) Warracknabeal that there is actually a public bus service that goes there if you for whatever reason can't drive... but obviously some of the routes are very marginal propositions.
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