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Re:The deep roots of modern resentment by Animats on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:06PM (#13534045)
Rail nationalization again? Britain has gone back and forth on that since the 1940s.[1][2][3] It didn't help. Currently, trains are mostly private and track is mostly Government-owned, which sort of works.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railtrack [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Rail

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Re:The deep roots of modern resentment by crdoconnor on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:15PM (#13534166)
It sort of works at 3x the price you pay in Western Europe.

Of course, I don't think people want to return to the period just before privatization either when the rail network was deliberately starved of investment in order to make privatization appear more appealing.

Nonetheless, the majority of the public support this idea. The Telegraph literally called the majority of the public communists for doing so.

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