| ▲ | throwaway384034 a day ago | |
What do you think will happen to the train ticket prices if you push everyone towards public transport? Depending on which zones you are travelling between in London it can already cost you £300 / month. That's £3600 a year. Not even factoring in safety which becomes a priority if you have a family. | ||
| ▲ | FabCH a day ago | parent | next [-] | |
That's a UK thing. You did that entirely to yourself. Deutschlandticket is 55 GBP / month and valid across all German regional public transport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschlandticket. ICE is excluded, but if you are commuting via ICE... Zurich pass, valid on all public transport is 800 CHF per year. | ||
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| ▲ | rsynnott a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |
That's mostly just a UK thing; you can blame John Major, to a large extent. (Unusually, not Thatcher; even Thatcher was against privatising the railways.) Arguably it was kind of the same problem as Brexit; the Tories expected to lose in 1992, so felt free-er to put all sorts of stupid shit in their manifesto, including privatising the railways. Then they won. Surprisingly, they did not learn their lesson. > Not even factoring in safety which becomes a priority if you have a family. Huh? Are you claiming that trains are more unsafe than cars? | ||