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Re:Taxi deregulation coming to Finland by geezerjay on Thursday February 01, 2018 @01:46PM (#16284500)
> Building a metro requires enormous investment, with a huge but very long-term payback

Actually that's far from the truth. Any form of railway transport, with some notable exceptions like some french TGV lines, are absurd money sinks. The value of railway services in particular but public transportation systems in genetal manifest themselves mainly as externalities.

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Re:Taxi deregulation coming to Finland by Reason077 on Friday February 02, 2018 @04:36AM (#16289442)
Right. That's exactly what I wrote in my comment above.
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Re:Taxi deregulation coming to Finland by geezerjay on Saturday February 03, 2018 @02:51AM (#16296708)
You've stated that there is a payback. There isn't. It's a money sink, and the only way that such a project is justified is mainly by state funding (public service contracts, state-owned corporations, etc)
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