Comments by "Lepi Doptera" (@lepidoptera9337) on "The UK's Failed Experiment in Rail Privatization" video.

  1. Then you might as well say goodbye to rail.
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  2.  @acctsys  Pretty much. That's why they call it public transportation. Paid by the public so that the public has transportation options.
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  3.  @acctsys  So you are basically just a kid who wants everything for free without having to work for it? :-)
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  4. Tokyo-Kyoto on the trains seems to cost roughly $130 one way. Return tickets between San Francisco and Los Angeles (which I would consider a roughly equivalent travel in the US) are roughly $200. Overnight on the bus you can do the one way trip for less than $100. Or you just drive... it's something like seven hours, I believe. Cost for the car ride is probably around $150-200. Not too bad. Seriously, anybody who thinks that we can move people hundreds of miles for ten bucks is delusional. We could never do that. Not on foot, not on horseback, not on a boat, not on rails and not on rubber wheels. The cost is the cost. Live with it.
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  5. If you split a cake into two, the cost of the cake is still the same. Don't be ridiculous.
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  6. Nothing has gone wrong. Rail is simply not cheap to operate. I don't know why anybody thinks it should be.
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  7.  @ShimmerUK1  The cost of a plane is whatever the cost of a plane is. You certainly never saw bankrupt airlines, did you? There you go. That's your answer.
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  8.  @ShimmerUK1  If trains were significantly cheaper to run, then the cost of train tickets would be significantly lower than the cost of air tickets. Since that is not the case you are wrong. NEXT! :-)
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  9.  @ShimmerUK1  The cost of rail has nothing to do with the UK. It's high across all of the world. I can't argue with your religious beliefs that this is somehow "wrong". It is simply what it is. If you can't deal with reality, I can't make you. Horses and water, you know.
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  10.  @ShimmerUK1  Where? Not in Japan. Not in Germany as far as I can tell. I can fly cheaper in the US over longer distances than I can travel in Europe on trains. I can even fly cheaper in Europe over longer distances, too. Even a short distance ticket in Germany is now $4.50... which is the same price as a short distance ticket in the US. Dude, you are living in the past, I just can't tell how far back. The 1920s, maybe? ;-)
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  11.  @mbrproductions160  I don't know a single thing in Italy that works well. The food is good, though. NEXT! :-)
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  12.  @mbrproductions160  You said "Alitalia, Italy’s National air carrier was driven to bankruptcy ", which means that one public transportation system has destroyed another. To which I said that I don't know anything that works well in Italy. ;-)
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