public transit is a service, not a business. it does not need to make a profit.
Ideally it should be supported without deficit or profit by its users. A lot of these old services also accumulate inefficiencies over time that should be pruned from time to time
There’s a reason flights are so cheap compared to to rail, and it’s not good news for anybody except the CEOs of airline companies. TLDR: they’re subsidised and the fuel is subsidised to artificially price them below public transport. We could have cheap or even free public transport if we wanted using the same method.
Oh man. I wish that’d work where I live (Canada). Europeans don’t realize how lucky they have it! I can’t fly to any worthwhile countries and back in a day (at least not long enough to enjoy the stay)
Can hardly even fly to another Canadian city without it costing an arm and a leg.
And an extra finger too, if you want to choose where you sit!
Be tempted to look south my man
I’d like to visit Mexico sometime, but it wouldn’t really work for a day trip
Fucking airline companies leeching on government opportunities, fucking train companies that treat train travel as a luxury (ex: fucking Thameslink which is expensive and yet only has seat treys in its first class) and governments not giving train lines the same benefits they give to airline companies are all complicit in environmental crimes.
