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That’s okay, but do you also have a cost estimate for your plan? Because I simply estimate that the subsidy is insignificant compared to these costs. Say that you then need 100 more drivers across the country (estimated to be very economical on purpose so that I don’t exaggerate without too much knowledge) who each cost roughly 43,800 euros per year in labor costs. In addition, 40 more buses (also seems very conservative to me, but good). BYD K9 that you see a lot in the Netherlands would cost roughly from 395,000 dollars. Let us again remain very conservative and say that they also cost that in euros.

Then you arrive at annual wage costs of 100 * 43,800 = 4.38 million euros, structurally, in wage costs.
Purchase of buses (one-off): 40 * 395,000 euros = 15.8 million

Then there are various personnel costs (losses, administration, training, etc.). Maintenance of the buses, storage and workplace for maintenance. Maintenance and cleaning staff. Costs for electricity consumption. Of course you will earn a little more money, but not nearly enough. Otherwise those buses would already run to a village every half hour. With a very conservative estimate it is already not peanuts. But suppose I am so conservative that three times that amount is needed (doesn’t sound unthinkable in a country with 11.7 million inhabitants). Then you can see where the costs are going. So yes, I also want flawless public transport everywhere. But I’m guessing that the actual cost picture looks very different than those few tens of millions.

Edit: just looked at current figures for public transport in Belgium. There are now 2235 buses in service. If you want to cover everything, say 06:00 to 00:00 every day, is 25% more transport an unreasonable figure? Not in my opinion. Then you end up purchasing 559 buses. Let’s say that half of the purchase can be covered by running existing buses more (very optimistic I think). Rounded up, you will need an additional 280 buses. I talked above about 100 drivers per 40 buses, so you need 700 drivers in this case. New calculation:

700 * 43,800 = 30,660,000 euros per year purely in wage costs.
280 * 395,000 = 110,600,000 for the purchase of buses.

Plus all the additional costs I mentioned earlier. And the question is whether this is enough to achieve your goal.

[Reactie gewijzigd door JT op 8 mei 2024 10:44]