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convolvatron 4 hours ago

looks like the one time cost for doing a renovation is around $1m per car, and are funded by spot grants rather than the general budget. I was unable to find the overhead involved in ongoing maintenance, but it looks like killing the F line is already on the table.

abeppu 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Apparently the cable cars have by far the highest cost to operate per hour anyway.

At 2024 numbers in this SPUR report:

Cable car 872 streetcare 631 lightrail 412 system avg 327 motorbus 302 trolleybus 281

So canceling each cable car could IIUC, allow the system to add roughly 3 electric buses.

https://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/2026-03/SPUR_Taking...