I remember watching some videos about the rail in Japan. The rail itself wasn’t really profitable, but the rail company also own the land around the exits. Because of more sane zoning laws, it can actually be used too. And they make fuckin bank leasing out that prime real estate.
Which is why Shinkansen tickets are like 5x more expensive than in China. Also why every city has like 10 different transit companies with transfers that can mean “walk 2 blocks on the surface”. Under capitalism, the ideal railroad makes infinite money while running zero trains and owning zero infrastructure. You literally need to use legal means to get them to deviate from this.
Say what you will but their train system works smooth like butter. When I visited I used the local metro around Tokyo and it was very affordable. Didn’t get a chance to ride the Shinkansen though so no direct comment on that.
Japan may be better than Europe and way better than America, but the fact that their trains work at all is in spite of deregulation, privatization, and break up of JR and all the workarounds and laws passed they needed to get the “market solutions” to not just close non-profitable stations, fire half their work force, stop paying pensions, and raise rates to the point of unaffordability.
okay the Japanese train system is dangerous for women. You gonna get sexually assaulted. who cares if it runs on time. THE RAPE TRAIN IS PUNCTUAL YAY. why are we looking at japan for public transit ideas?
I remember watching some videos about the rail in Japan. The rail itself wasn’t really profitable, but the rail company also own the land around the exits. Because of more sane zoning laws, it can actually be used too. And they make fuckin bank leasing out that prime real estate.
Which is why Shinkansen tickets are like 5x more expensive than in China. Also why every city has like 10 different transit companies with transfers that can mean “walk 2 blocks on the surface”. Under capitalism, the ideal railroad makes infinite money while running zero trains and owning zero infrastructure. You literally need to use legal means to get them to deviate from this.
Say what you will but their train system works smooth like butter. When I visited I used the local metro around Tokyo and it was very affordable. Didn’t get a chance to ride the Shinkansen though so no direct comment on that.
Have you been to Korea or China?
Japan may be better than Europe and way better than America, but the fact that their trains work at all is in spite of deregulation, privatization, and break up of JR and all the workarounds and laws passed they needed to get the “market solutions” to not just close non-profitable stations, fire half their work force, stop paying pensions, and raise rates to the point of unaffordability.
okay the Japanese train system is dangerous for women. You gonna get sexually assaulted. who cares if it runs on time. THE RAPE TRAIN IS PUNCTUAL YAY. why are we looking at japan for public transit ideas?
If only there was some way to bring the physical infrastructure without the misogynistic social structures…
Sane use of hyperbolic naming, helps show your commitment to the safety of women.
Hentai doesn’t equate to real life, you know?
you can’t possibly be that dense. wait, this is lemmy, you are probably arguing for more rape trains