• GuStJaR@lemmy.world
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    If my train costs more than it would to drive, park, and pay congestion charges, there is something very wrong with the system.

  • IcePee@lemmy.beru.co
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    This is the outcome of Capitalism . Even the new Open Access Operators are no guarantee of sustainable salvation. As Capitalism in a free market will always seek to acquire and merge. Or out compete and destroy competition.

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      This isn’t capitalism, it’s more cronyism where the government takes on all the risk but outsources any profit to private companies

      If it were capitalism, the full system would’ve collapsed over covid where there weren’t enough passengers. If it were socialism, it’d probably be largely the same given the number of lines that do lose money, but at least the profitable ones like the London-Birmingham/Manchester routes would be adding money to the government instead of private companies

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    Nationalise the lot, dump in the billions we need to get it back to scratch again.

    Infrastructure always makes its money back in growth several times over, before anyone thinks of replying we should spend the money elsewhere

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    And the amount of effort required to get a refund is ridiculous. Back and forth emails resulting in a cheque in the post 2 months later

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      I read it and was like “140 isn’t too bad”. Then I noticed it said per day, wtf?!

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      Every 10th train basically.

      (For people who have a hard time with %…)

      Edit: should have read the article. It is up 9%, my bad.