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#415Welcome to UK, where 40-55mins trains from neighbouring cities to London costs 50-110£ for a return journey and 6k+ for a yearly ticket. We apologize for a delay in your journey, this is due to staff shortage.
> this is due to staff shortage.
But also managed decline of the railway by the Government
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#416Welcome to UK, where 40-55mins trains from neighbouring cities to London costs 50-110£ for a return journey and 6k+ for a yearly ticket. We apologize for a delay in your journey, this is due to staff shortage.
Imagine my surprise coming from Italy, where our trains are famously dirty and late, and taking my first train in the UK. Trains are cleaner and somewhat less delayed, but bloody hell, they are not worth the price. For £110 I reckon you can go Milan–Naples (800 km, 4h30) in high speed 1st class train, which do not even exist in Britain. The wonders of privatisation, innit?
> The wonders of privatisation, innit?
Many rail services in the UK are effectively not private now, and they're even worse, because when a right-wing government that hates public transport takes control, all hell breaks loose.
We have a very complicated rail network which is bad for many reasons other than "private" or "public"
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#417Controversial opinion: Public transport should be publicly owned.
People love making this remark still in the UK despite the Government having much more direct control of more rail services than compared to pre-COVID, and the rail network being in an absolutely dire state. Public != good, public != bad, private != good, private != bad
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#418Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or leave the country, because they're treated badly despite their higher contributions.
Being taxed higher doesn't make everyone feel as they're treated bad. Just so you hear another perspective.
Taxes is one thing.
Making us buy a ticket to use transport, while the poor uses it for free would be on another level.
Public transport is already funded through taxes. We already paid for it.
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#419Earlier quoted context omitted.
So you need a "compatible smartphone" to travel? That's messed up.
There are also ticket machines at almost every stop, if you dont have a smartphone. You can pay with cash, card, and i believe with Bitcoin too
I'd rather an IC card such as the SUICA Japan has.
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#420Earlier quoted context omitted.
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How about „people getting paid handsomely for writing things on computers for other people to read“? (This includes mails, but also code or marketing etc. - eg people that didn’t have the slightest inconvenience during lockdowns compared to „essential workers“)
That term works okay.
But I still wouldn't say that group is the one that cares about crossing between transit areas.