Adelaide trains back in public hands

[Richard Youl]

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[TP]

A purely ideological decision. The Keolis Downer contract was saving taxpayers $10 million a year and service quality was, I understand, at least as good. This was despite a quiet guerilla campaign by the RTBU to undermine KD's KPIs (e.g. drivers driving slowly or phoning in sick at the last minute).

I hope the SA government will explain to taxpayers the benefits of them paying more to run the trains. They're lucky that KD didn't take them to the legal cleaners for breach of contract, opting instead for a negotiated settlement.

Tony P

[Bob Pearce]

Hi all,

 

How does that work ‘The Keolis Downer contract was saving taxpayers $10 million a year and service quality was, I understand, at least as good.’

 

KD were in the business to make a profit.  How did they manage that, if they also saved the taxpayer $10M pa.

 

How do the costs all of a sudden increase by that amount because it has reverted to public hands?

 

Bob in Perth

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Much the same way as buses are operated in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and parts of Queensland? 

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[TP]

Private contractors bring efficiencies and cost savings that government operations typically can't achieve.

Tony P