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  1. What horrible conditions you have to live in! lol My current (Germany) 3000 people town once had a train line, closed a few years after reunification. We have 3 bus lines converging here going to the next big cities. Service once an hour. Travel time for 20/30km air distance about an hour too, because it goes through all the villages. Price is about what you would pay for fuel in a car if you go full distance. That actually one of the better connected places for "rural" one. A lot of more remote, small villages in Germany have 2-5 buses a day, generally at school/work time start and finish.
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  2. lol But isn't that a problem too if you have more than 256 axles?
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  3.  @Slithermotion  Yeah, but does that not mean it can be registred as a different train?
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  4.  @Blackadder75  They are, but the main point is that the wealth is less concentrated in the top. Especially at the very low end, having 5K more a year is a huge difference.
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  5.  @jonistan9268  Train lines? Yes, many of the small branch lines. (But the West was just a bit faster.) For example the line to the 3000 people town I live in now.
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  6.  @ci-cy3ww  Yes (but still run like a state company) and no. 20km for less than 5 dollar is not what I would call expensive. Thats just a bit more than half the price of a normal german train ticket.
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  7. What, wait. Calgary has NO... error brain shuts down
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  8.  @mdhazeldine  I do worry getting around Switzerland. It's so much easier to just take the train through...
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  9. Well, they are called train CARS for a reason.
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  10.  @unifaeggi  They are rich because they have good transit. And lots of hidden money from outside (tax) criminals.
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  11. The most amazing thing is that Switzerland does that train service for... I think 126€ it was per head. Or about what a family pays for car insurance. (Germany was at 42€ per head at the time of the documentary) Now imagine hallf of the US people could get rid of their car and put all that money into trains. You could have Switzerland level public transport without any fares!
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  12.  @lws7394  Doy ou have the source on that? My numbers are from a (several years old) TV documentation. And to not make misunderstandings: It was probably the subsidies, not the total costs, though they didn't say that (I deducted that by the low numbers).
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