On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 04:52:10PM +0100, Ashish Gulhati wrote: > You forgot to adjust for purchasing power parity, and the 50% discount > available to regular commuters in .ch.
i addressed both points replying to devdas, i think - purchasing power parity doesn't apply here if we are talking about providing profitable services based on high capital costs, as capital expenditure tends to follow market exchange rates. but one reason for the high cost in .ch is definitely the provision of trains at such frequency that they run mostly empty; trains that run full as in mumbai, can certainly be cheaper. > Also, as the bombay rail presumably handles larger volumes of traffic, > it's only logical that it should be able to leverage better economies of > scale to achieve lower per-unit pricing. > > #! >
