On right-hand-drive vehicles, first I would like to say yes, we are investigating every single option, and we are trying to better understand the ergonomic issues involved. I agree with you, there are definitely some ergonomic issues involved.
Right-hand-drive vehicles do not exist. They are not manufactured. We have gone to several manufacturers to test out if they might even be interested, and because it would be a single purchase, not very many of them are. They are considerably more than $50,000. We have 15-year-old right-hand-drive vehicles. We have about 1,000 of them that are quite old. They're used for some of the urban system. Our urban network is enormous, so if we were to change all of our vehicles to right-hand-drive.... You can't just say, well, if we have to have a right-hand-drive vehicle in rural Canada, we don't need a right-hand-drive vehicle anywhere else. I ask the committee to share the understanding that this is a huge network. There are thousands and thousands of routes. It's a very big logistical exercise.
I am being told that if right-hand-drive vehicles could be procured, if you could find a manufacturer and you were going full bore, the first ones could not come off any assembly line in less than three years, with all of the regulatory issues you'd have to get through. But as a very preliminary, what I would call class Z estimate, just for the rural areas we know about--and I think Mr. Temelkovski is correct that we will certainly, over the course of time, find out about others--you would be talking about a couple of hundred million dollars of capital cost.
But there's another point I need to mention. Right now a significant portion, about 20%, of rural route salaries is attached to the use of a private vehicle. The amount of money rural route people are paid is on the basis of how long it takes for them to do the stops, so if we were going to provide right-hand-drive vehicles, let's say three or four years down the road--