• @AntY
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    4314 hours ago

    I remember seeing an interview with Margaret Thatcher where she said that rail could never be successfully privatized. Just as a reminder of how extreme Musk’s ideas are.

    • CurlyWurlies4All
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      14 hours ago

      Thatcher’s successor, John Major, oversaw the privatisation of British railways between 1994 and 1997.

      It only took 30 years for them all to completely collapse in 2024.

      • @[email protected]
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        913 hours ago

        British Rail Service is so bloody expensive as well. Seems like you guys have these, essentially, per-track monopolies.

    • @coyootje
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      514 hours ago

      They more or less did that here in the Netherlands. Once the government let go, things slowly started getting worse and we’re now at the point where I’d say things are expensive, occasionally sporty and suboptimal…