Nationalisation is not a panacea. In France for instance, SNCF runs the non-TGV railway with inefficency and carelessness on a "it's our railway and we decide

Nationalisation is not a panacea. In France for instance, SNCF runs the non-TGV railway with inefficency and carelessness on a "it's our railway and we decide how you can use it" basis, and the regional governments are chomping at the bit to be able to award the contracts for subsided services to someone other than the state monopoly.