The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't

Re:The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet... by lava_pidgeon on Sunday April 05, 2026 @10:24PM (#47656276)

I don't know but Swiss isn't the only train system that works but also Spain, Italy, France. Poland has a growing better train system . The swiss system has it's advantages but it is also very expensive.

It might also worth it to check them out

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Re:The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet... by ceejayoz on Sunday April 05, 2026 @10:32PM (#47656327)

I’ve ridden on several.

“Others do it even better and cheaper” makes the US failure to build and maintain infrastructure like this even sadder.

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Re:The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet... by Moldoteck on Monday April 06, 2026 @02:33AM (#47657630)

The advantage of swiss system is fast transfers. Hsr would likely break this system (no point in arriving faster if your connection gets longer by 10-15min

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Re:The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet... by lava_pidgeon on Monday April 06, 2026 @04:06AM (#47658162)

That's a very National focussed perspective and thus definitely a disadvantage of the Swiss train system ;)

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Re:The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet... by panick21_ on Monday April 06, 2026 @04:45AM (#47658367)

I'm Swiss and I disagree, and so do many experts. First of all, arriving earlier is always good, because many people who get off on that stop still arrive earlier. Also, people who connect to a different mode of transit, such as Trams or S-Bahns very likely can catch an earlier connection.

In addition, if we built proper high speed lines, would could increase the frequency so much that it doesn't actually matter anymore.

So it doesn't actually break the system, it improves it.

Join us in advocating for this vision: https://swissrailvolution.ch/#goals

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