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0 pointsturkeywelder5mo ago0 comments

Idiotic Brit here.

Not exactly how we think. We're frustrated that our private railway is worse than DB in terms of lateness and cancellations but also hugely, massively more expensive for us to use.

We'd be happy if it was publicly owned because then at least the insane profit from ticket sales might possibly just maybe make it into investment in the railway instead of someone's bonus.

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hdgvhicv5mo ago

2% discount on ticket prices is hardly going to make a difference to people views, yet thanks to competition I can travel to London cheaper today than I could in 1990.

And your laughable claim about British railways being later than DB, shows that yes, you are an idiot Brit.

Of course it’s been moot for 5 years since Boris started the nationalisation at scale during Covid, simply moving to a standard outsourced operation.

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