Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket
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Re: Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket
#2Controversial opinion: Public transport should be publicly owned.
Re: Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket
#3Controversial opinion: Public transport should be publicly owned.
They were at one point, but capitalism said everything needs to make a profit.
Re: Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket
#4Controversial opinion: Public transport should be publicly owned.
It technically is in many places around Germany: The national railway infrastructure is owned by a government-owned entity, as is the main railway company. Many municipal public transport systems are also owned directly by the municipalities themselves, although there are also some semi-privatized systems and the national railway company also owns shares of municipal public transport systems in many major cities.
Still, public ownership itself is not really sufficient to guarantee great public transport. In Germany, prevailing opinion is that public transport should break even or cost the public purse as little as possible. The effect is that many communities especially in rural and urban marginalized places are underserved by public transport and many smaller cities have been disconnected from the railway grid.
In my view public transport should be both owned by the public and viewed as a true public good: similarly to basic education, healthcare, electricity and clean water, every citizen should have access to a decent level of service, no matter how cost efficient it would be.
Re: Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket
#5Controversial opinion: Public transport should be publicly owned.
Even more: Public transport is a public good which should be funded by fossil fuel taxes and provided to users without cost.
Re: Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket
#6Controversial opinion: Public transport should be publicly owned.
It depends on the quality of the government and administrators.
Re: Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket
#7The problem is that in Germany, the city-to-city trains that can be used with this ticket do not have WIFI IIRC. Can anybody confirm this?
Traveling time without WIFI is a much higher burden to me than normal traveling time, where I can work on my projects. I actually like working on the train. It is a nice environment. But without that possibility, long train rides are a chore to me.
And it will be interesting to see how crowded the trains will be.
Durig the 9-Euro ticket times, city-to-city trains were uncomfortably densely packed.
Re: Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket
#8Controversial opinion: Public transport should be publicly owned.
They were at one point, but capitalism said everything needs to make a profit.
The pyramid scheme grinds to an halt, if it does not. Everything goto join the MLM scheme, or those running the whole affair get a existential crisis.
Re: Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket
#9Controversial opinion: Public transport should be publicly owned.
Theres a really interesting graph showing rail usage under both public and private ownership in GB.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/GB...
I'll let you draw your own conclusions
From this page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail
Re: Millions snap up new Germany-wide public transit ticket
#10The problem is that in Germany, the city-to-city trains that can be used with this ticket do not have WIFI IIRC. Can anybody confirm this? Traveling time without WIFI is a much higher burden to me than normal traveling time, where I can work on my projects. I actually like working on the train. It is a nice environment. But without that possibility, long train rides are a chore to me. And it will be interesting to se…
Just use mobile data? That's what the trains are using anyway.