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It's really nice to see a project like this crop up after the rail privatisation. In the EU countries that have gone through that transition the situation for t
by daenney 10y ago
It's really nice to see a project like this crop up after the rail privatisation. In the EU countries that have gone through that transition the situation for the passenger hasn't improved much and since there usually still only is a single provider for most routes the prices tend to only go up without much for it in return. That's not to say it would necessarily have been better to keep it public, just that the promise of privatisation hasn't really delivered, in my experience.
This might not be groundbreaking, it might not even work but I'm really happy to see someone try something new(ish) in this arena.
Also, trains are the best. Choo-choo!
- pluma 10y agoThe only thing the privatisation originally did was eliminate DB's accountability and allow them to cut costs like infrastructure maintenance. I think the mistake was to turn a state monopoly into a private monopoly. I'm still not convinced privatising infrastructure like rail passenger transport is better than socialising it and at least on the communal level I'm convinced socialised public transport would be a better approach (i.e. treat trams and roads equivalently). But DB only really cares about their high speed trains, so it's good to see someone try to improve the rest.
- lambertsimnel 10y agoIt vaguely reminds me of this planned cooperative British rail service: http://go-op.coop/ http://go-op.coop/ Go-Op aims to run passenger owned trains in competition with franchises granted by the government to conventional profit-distributing businesses. As far as I know, its trains haven't yet started running, but I'm pleased to see that it hasn't been abandoned, especially in light of Southern Rail's troubles.