• HeartyBeast
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    17 months ago

    Counterpoint- the council can mandate routes and frequency in the contract and put it out to tender. The idea is that the private sector is better an innovating to be efficient, though I’m not sure that has ever really been demonstrated

    • @breadsmasher
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      37 months ago

      and with that you unfortunately recreate the shitshow which semi privatisation of railway

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        7 months ago

        I’d say that the railways were probably more likely to fail because you have the added complication of the rail infrastructure company on top, plus the need for through-ticketing and timetable coordination. Those factors magnified the sheer amount of shit in the show