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Train fares are up to 30 times more expensive than planes in Europe
(edition.cnn.com)
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this post was submitted on 22 Jul 2023
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In Germany, it's greed. I remember 18 years ago a train ride to the next city to go to the movies was 1.30 euros. Today it costs 5.80 euros. That's not inflation, that's just greed.
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.
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.