{"id":68486,"date":"2024-06-19T11:36:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T01:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=68486"},"modified":"2024-06-19T11:36:43","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T01:36:43","slug":"south-australia-regional-transport-costs-8-times-less-than-adelaide-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=68486","title":{"rendered":"South Australia regional transport costs 8 times less than Adelaide costs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Absolutely bonkers stat: South Australia’s *entire*<\/strong> regional public transport network costs the state about $18 million per annum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For that expenditure, the region’s 400,000 residents make 912,000 trips per annum – an average of 2.3 per person, per year, at a cost of $19 per trip. Altogether, the state spends around $45 per regional resident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compare that to Adelaide Metro’s budget of ~$500 million. Greater Adelaide’s population of 1.4 million makes just over 60 million trips on the network each year, or 43 per person, costing $8.33 per trip. The total per capita budget is about $357 per year – an incredible 8 times<\/strong> the regional budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conventional wisdom is that regional services are typically more expensive on a per-capita basis, due to diseconomies of scale and the much larger distances such services need to cover. Yet here we see the opposite – regional areas are being massively underfunded, and each journey costs the state barely twice what a metropolitan journey does, despite the regional journeys being many times longer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This indefensible neglect has been a bipartisan status quo for at least the last three decades, and it’s high time things changed. Regional SA needs to kick out the majors and elect locally-focussed independents who will ensure a fair deal for their constituents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, compare the V\/Line budget of $1.2 billion for Victoria\u2019s 1.5 million regional residents = $800 per person, not even including the PTV services . A lazy 18x what South Australia spends. Embarrassing and enraging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

V\/Line provides 22 million trips per year, = average of 15 trips per person per year, and $54\/trip (this is presumably *not* net of farebox, but that makes less of a difference now with the fare cap)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources: Regional bus service contracts: https:\/\/audit.sa.gov.au\/sites\/default\/files\/2024-01\/Report%201%20of%202024%20-%20Regional%20bus%20service%20contracts%20-%20Phase%201.pdf\u2026<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adelaide Metro annual report and financials: https:\/\/dit.sa.gov.au\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0003\/1286904\/DIT-2022-2023_SA_Government_Annual_Report_with_financial_statements.pdf\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Estimate of operating costs and farebox recovery: https:\/\/espace.library.uq.edu.au\/data\/UQ_353689\/UQ353689.pdf?Expires=1718790119&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJKNBJ4MJBJNC6NLQ&Signature=S3BcyoKPsW-WxeqcOuY7ISnvESamRHSS8fr8o1QK0WnJo7pQXrBz5npsUsWmf8sDl-2OTC-3evByj4cjHrPRWZ1MKsjjjx7IPE9-QTTxeeN0QviVzZoQEEKi7LLKyyqslvRcHQPf1gZDPxZm0zFfOgUWma4WuMNYyPlBwSRWSEKvkBQHabxFT-4fw5slQhcok8URmQ6-Z7I~yBqm-zda4bv0–BIidY0iG3DZFm14c-lbc~YJf9Xpt4vmde0-WZo5mehwzTGAIGTf6X8L-UNE7M4pD9ZARcL~dGXMEtqRvl~YwMDVqcL2lKer1z-0b-nNgVFCUUkuIB7yvK3E0rbRg__<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just appeared too good to leave just on twitter where it will be hard to find again and not seen with enough eyes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adapted from recent Twitter Posts and recognising HOT RAILS<\/a>. By Helen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Absolutely bonkers stat: South Australia’s *entire* regional public transport network costs the state about $18 million per annum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":68488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,186],"tags":[265,10641,10640,7527],"class_list":["post-68486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rail-news","category-v-line","tag-adelaide","tag-adelaide-metro","tag-regional-transport","tag-south-australia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t