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Re:Spain will introduce free train travel by rtpg on Saturday July 23, 2022 @10:39PM (#32209768)
There's a decent alternative which is car rentals. Having decent car rental services (and, honestly, pairing that with making car ownership expensive as hell) can resolve a lot of these kinds of issues.

Yeah it's annoying, but it's private transportation! A massive luxury if you think about it long enough. And it means that most houses don't need parking lots.

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Re:Spain will introduce free train travel by ghaff on Saturday July 23, 2022 @11:42PM (#32210114)
Renting cars for the weekend is a PITA. Most people I know in cities would rather just own them.

And make living in cities sufficiently unpleasant or incinvenientand people who can will just leave as they did in the 70s and 80s.

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Re:Spain will introduce free train travel by Schroedingersat on Monday July 25, 2022 @02:51AM (#32221298)
And many people would rather not own one.

But only the latter group is having that choice made for them and then having their tax money spent on infrastructure designed to burden them with car ownership.

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