• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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        Say what you will

        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?