12-11-2020, 02:56 PM
(12-11-2020, 11:29 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: The ~880MM is the closest of those numbers to a billion.
I think the Grandlinq contract total value might be higher. But of course that is an arbitrary number which could have been made to come out arbitrarily high by going for a different number of years. 30 years of maintenance and operation turns out to be a lot of money.
I also forgot to mention gross expense or net of fare revenue, which because of integration with the bus system introduces a whole other set of complexities. Turns out buying transit systems isn’t like buying pens and pencils.