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Re:As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail by legulere on Saturday July 01, 2017 @06:26PM (#14679407)
Public transport projects have to undergo cost benefit analyses first in Germany. They only get subsidized when the result is positive. This is rarely a problem.
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Re:As the U.S. fantasizes, the world builds high speed rail by kuschku on Saturday July 01, 2017 @06:56PM (#14679542)
Sadly, they often don’t even get subsidized when they have a 1:2 cost to profit ratio! (as the Stadt-Regional-Bahn Kiel showed!)
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