Re:Why New York City Stopped Building Subways (2018)
by eru on Monday October 07, 2019 @07:20AM
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> The influence of the car industry [...]
Doesn't Germany have proportionally an even bigger car industry?
> Some counties in Europe have seen their former very nice state run public transport systems seen completely deteriorated over the past decades once sold out to the so-called 'efficient' private sector. [...]
Most public transport used to be private in the 19th century and was nationalized as a combination of cash cow and for military purposes.
Doesn't Germany have proportionally an even bigger car industry?
> Some counties in Europe have seen their former very nice state run public transport systems seen completely deteriorated over the past decades once sold out to the so-called 'efficient' private sector. [...]
Most public transport used to be private in the 19th century and was nationalized as a combination of cash cow and for military purposes.
The graphs on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_privatisation_of... look pretty good.