Remember the days when railways were exclusively government run enterprises?
Thanks to the neoliberal thieves selling off public property for short term profits, now we all can enjoy paying the ever raising prices for ever diminishing service.
I wish it was like that here in the Netherlands. Instead we get flights that stay more or less the same price due to heavy subsidies and constant bickering about the trains. They’ve already announced another 10% price hike on trains for the coming year, after already raising it by 5-10% every single year for the past few years. It’s insane. Add to that the extra inconvenience of having to cross borders with mediocre connections and I can understand that people don’t take the train.
I would rather see trains getting cheaper than planes getting more expensive though
Tax the planes to subsidize trains, I guess.
Remember the days when railways were exclusively government run enterprises?
Thanks to the neoliberal thieves selling off public property for short term profits, now we all can enjoy paying the ever raising prices for ever diminishing service.
AFAIK It’s working for Spain and Italy
I wish it was like that here in the Netherlands. Instead we get flights that stay more or less the same price due to heavy subsidies and constant bickering about the trains. They’ve already announced another 10% price hike on trains for the coming year, after already raising it by 5-10% every single year for the past few years. It’s insane. Add to that the extra inconvenience of having to cross borders with mediocre connections and I can understand that people don’t take the train.