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Train fares are up to 30 times more expensive than planes in Europe (edition.cnn.com)

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[–] Watson@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They gotta finance their infrastructure somehow.

Oh, right. They're incentivized to not do exactly that. So they can cry to the government for even more funds.

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago

Even more obscene is that they used to have a monopoly by law until sometime in the mid-2000s. No other corporation was allowed to compete with Deutsche Bahn, a remnant of Hitler's agenda to strengthen governmental grip on public transport.

And still they managed to have deficits in every financial quarter.