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You do subsidise it, whether the roads (which are massively subsidied) or the railway. The privatised railway is a massively inneficient way of running a railw

• tonyedgecombe 5y ago
  >You do subsidise it Not much, as you can see by @cirrus-cloud's price comparisons. >The privatised railway is a massively inneficient way of running a railway. It wasn't a picture of efficiency when the state ran it.
  • rawTruthHurts 5y ago
    > It wasn't a picture of efficiency when the state ran it. Privatisation didn't deliver what it promised.
    • tonyedgecombe 5y ago
      Customer satisfaction is the second highest in Europe. The number of journeys has increased by 128%. The average real-terms increase in fares has been lower than under British Rail. We now have the safest railways in Europe [1]. The amount of investment has gone up nine-fold. [2] What hasn't happened is stopping politicians meddling with it, this was a problem before and continues to be. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jul/25/how-safe-are-europe-railways https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jul/25/how-sa... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_privatisation_of_British_Rail#cite_note-32 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_privatisation_of...