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Are there any indications that a market for rail is actually more efficient?

• Ericson2314 5y ago
  It's not! One of the end results is taking trains across national borders is way more annoying than it should be. That in turn I believe has lead to warped statistics on the viability of rail for long distances!
  • ant6n 5y ago
    International passenger rail is a bit of a niche of the overall rail market, but if you compare north America to Europe here, Europe is doing much better.
• eitland 5y ago
  Maybe not yet, but as someone who lived through the annoying breakup of the telecom monopoly in Norway I'd never ever go back. I guess this will be the same. In 1998 I remember having to dial 1521 or something before the number I was planning to dial to use the cheaper minutes with the competitor. I also remember having to learn to use 8 digit numbers for everyone instead of using 5 digit numbers locally. Annoying, but forgotten 4 years later when you didn't have to prefix numbers anymore and we got cell phones with contact lists. Same will happen with rail I guess. Annoying today, but I guess 4 years from now no one on their right mind will ever want to go back. Oh, BTW, the same with the mail monopoly. A lot of complaints, but the result is I can now get my packages shipped overnight. I literally contacted my broadband provider on chat a Sunday afternoon during the last 30 days and had a new modem in my mail as I woke up the next morning. No way that could have happened with the old telecom and mail monopolies in place.