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It is fine as long as you have or can make enough trains, busses and people who staff them. Those are finite resources. Since the external costs of car traffic
by slow_typist 3y ago
It is fine as long as you have or can make enough trains, busses and people who staff them. Those are finite resources. Since the external costs of car traffic are so high, even free public transport would probably make sense from the societal perspective.
- Gravityloss 3y agoThis particular country is probably way oversufficient in all these. Oil they need to import.
- someweirdperson 3y agoNot only oil, also short on people to drive all those trains and busses (people who accept low wages, of course).
- yenda 3y agoWages are quite good especially for the low skills/paid training
- slow_typist 3y agoBus drivers are not paid very well in Germany. Especially those who work for relatively small private companies.
- Gravityloss 3y agoI meant that driving trains doesn't require oil, while people driving cars does. Hence your country is bleeding capital every time somebody drives. The whole train infrastructure is very self sufficient in Germany and they indeed export trains and tracks and all associated technology all over the place too, hence the term "oversufficient".
- yenda 3y agoI think it's actually brilliant. People aren't going to leisure trip at commuting hours, so it allows to keep a schedule outside of busy hours when you are normally way under capacity.