RodalfoWalsh
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I love that the new chinese trains are replacing the "new" "nacional & popular" (which were neither new nor nacional) trains that were put into service less than 8 years ago. Those trains, which were honestly not that bad, are now rusting away with that 40 million money pit excavator.
Private vs Public rail? Who cares, just pick one. Why is anyone shocked that a system in which a private operator can't set fares and instead relies 100% on receiving subsidies based on how many people they estimate used the service, doesn't work?
New train to cordoba on the same old decaying infrastructure? Why? What happened to the high speed rail? As sergio said the old train was actually fine if your goal is to have a low cost popular transport option. If you want to have a train that the middle classes will use for vacation or business travel you'll need to make it a hell of a lot faster and that will cost billions of dollars and even then it is going to fail when faced off against airline tickets which the state is subsidizing to the tune of U$D 2,000,000 per day.
Dear Kris,
Stop waisting our money. There are millions of people who would really benefit from infrastructure improvements that could easily be done with the money that has been wasted on fluffing up Randazzo.
Private vs Public rail? Who cares, just pick one. Why is anyone shocked that a system in which a private operator can't set fares and instead relies 100% on receiving subsidies based on how many people they estimate used the service, doesn't work?
New train to cordoba on the same old decaying infrastructure? Why? What happened to the high speed rail? As sergio said the old train was actually fine if your goal is to have a low cost popular transport option. If you want to have a train that the middle classes will use for vacation or business travel you'll need to make it a hell of a lot faster and that will cost billions of dollars and even then it is going to fail when faced off against airline tickets which the state is subsidizing to the tune of U$D 2,000,000 per day.
Dear Kris,
Stop waisting our money. There are millions of people who would really benefit from infrastructure improvements that could easily be done with the money that has been wasted on fluffing up Randazzo.