UK: Commuters Set to Shun More Expensive Rail
12th November 2010
Britain is learning what America knows: Rail sucks, and people only take trains when (a) the alternative is a horse, or (b) the government forces them into it. The latter is accomplished by a combination of jawboning, explicit attempts to discourage using automobiles, and massive taxpayer-funded subsidies for rail travel. This house of cards easily comes down if any one of the legs of the tripod falter, and that’s what’s happening here.
If doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result is the definition of insanity, then our governing classes have been insane for the last hundred years.