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Originally Posted by Catfish
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"Over priced buses and decrepit railways, which are over priced too... It's all that privatisation you know."
"Don't forget the cherry on the cake of thatchers ideology.
You now have an unintegrated expensive privatised transport services that gets even more subsidies from the taxpayer than the cheaper nationalised service got."
"Want to fix it - stop the speculation. Let the deals that are done complete, but allow no more going forward. At that point, the speculators no longer have an interest in keeping the price high and climbing (which keeps them making money) and thus don't have a reason to pressure the leadership of BOTH parties to not use the resources we have."
You are all COMMUNISTS !!  |
Feel free to come here in Finland and check service quality of our railways. I used to adjust my watch based on train's arrival on station as they were usually within few seconds of correct time. Nowadays they are within 5 min in good day, within 30 min in normal day and within few hours in bad days.
EDIT: Above is about long range trains including regional, express, intercity and pendolino trains.