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Germany, like America, is operated by and for the benefit of car companies. Their infrastructure difficulties share root causes with America's.
by jeffbee 1y ago
Germany, like America, is operated by and for the benefit of car companies. Their infrastructure difficulties share root causes with America's.
- general1726 1y agoOr there is a sane explanation - People drive cars -> People push their politicians to improve road infrastructure -> less money for other infrastructure -> trains are underfunded -> trains and tracks are having maintenance issues a reliability starts to fall apart -> people drive cars even more.
- jeffbee 1y agoWhile I agree that fundamentally the issue is that Germans spend more on cars than any other European population (but nowhere near as much as Americans), there is also the detail that a large share of VWAG is owned by a German state.
- DemocracyFTW2 1y agoif you judge driving cars as 'sane', sure; I don't
- general1726 1y agoI am just opposed to "big auto" idea being responsible for lack of investments in train network.
- DemocracyFTW2 1y agoit's exactly this