Infrastructure explained

Is that annualized ridership?

King county metro only operates two streetcar lines, the link light rail is operated by sound transit

What is the reason that LIRR is up so much and NJ transit is down so much?

At mcdonalds tbc

Another thing is that a hamburger/cheeseburger used to cost 1€ when I was in Middleschool (around 2018) and now its more than twice that

Disclaimer: the population data is from 1.1.2024

If you use the data from 1.1.2025 it looks like this:

Vienna: 2028289
Lower Austria: 1727514
Burgenland: 301790

Total: 4057593
(Old: 4031434)

New result: 277

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Decided to calculate it for Vienna for 2024:

Metro area of Vienna population:

Vienna: 2005760
Lower Austria: 1723723
Burgenland: 301951

Ridership VOR (regional transit org): 1,124 billion

Result: 278,8

there are only 2 countries in the European Union that don't have a tram/light rail network: Lithuania and Slovenia

Come on guys, Vilnius/Kaunas and Ljubljana could definitely support a few lines

Copenhagen overtook Vienna and is now the most liveable city in the world according to the economist intelligence unit

Tbf its mostly Vienna just the Viennese transport company gets 77% of that ridership, while only serving half of the population, and this doesnt even include the s bahn which also gets most of its ridership in Vienna

The VOR which is the transport association for eastern austria (population 4 million) transported 1,124 billion people in 2024 and increase of 122 million passengers over the previous year

the rent areas you look at in Vienna here are btw, not all districts, it excludes districts 21,22 and 23, which is where most of the new supply is being built, but it shows that you cant just sprawl the new housing, you need it to be built where the actual demand is (in the center)

the rent per squaremeter in Vienna (first graph) rose much faster and is currently much higher than in austrias second largest city: Graz (second graph)

Both cities grew in the past ten years, but especially in the last few years Graz was more successful at building new supply

I dont know sadly, but I think it includes it

Tram extension in Vienna:

Cost: 29 million € per kilometer

Dont get me wrong the bezirks guys there are great, its mostly a problem in the city planning and gardening department

Yes its better, but even there so mich more greenery could be possible, once you seen streets in Amsterdam, every street in Vienna looks like it has too little greenery

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Its so bad, becoming very unbearable without an AC in the summer, way too little greenery in the streets

I am not sure, but theoretically they should get the same proportional money from the klimaticket organization I think

The austrian population grew by 40 thousand people last year

This year growth will probably be at least 10k lower, because syrian migration dropped hard after the war ended and migration restrictions were put up

Komplett absurd, dass Wiener Wohnen Klimaanlagen einfach pauschal verbietet

Die züge sind erst so 20 jahre alt

Nein

Ja

Ja, aber trotzdem gibts keine kreuzungsmöglichkeiten, glaub liegt eher daran, dass die noch am stärksten an die kapazitätsgrenzen stößt

The central gov funding figure is only for metro construction btw which has a 50:50 funding split between the city and state

In my opinion its time to slightly raise the price of the yearly ticket, because it will still be very affordable and the city needs to save somehow

Also interesting that the operating subsidy is still lower than all the investment cost to the city which is half a billion € rn

New data on Public transit funding in Vienna:

The Public transit company gets roughly a billion euros from the city and 200 million from Central government, but this is both for investment and operation

Fare box revenue is roughly 63% (485M € in subsidy), good considering cheap ticket prices