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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Mon Nov 22 01:33:23 2010, in response to Re: American Railcar gone, posted by WillD on Sun Nov 21 23:45:45 2010. It is far less expensive to operate commuter rail than it is a Metro or S-Bahn.And you move far less people. Cost efficiency should ultimately take a second seat to the maximization of passengers being moved, as I have no qualms about high operating costs if we're moving sizable numbers of people and providing a real alternative to cars. European train DRIVERS operate on the same skill level as domestic transit operators. Railroad jobs are high skill activities because the system hasn't been nerfed. So what's wrong with reducing the skill needed? Oh boo hoo, the government doesn't subsidize your ability to roll out of bed and randomly decide to catch a train downtown. Learn how to read a schedule and plan your day accordingly. Be on top or be left behind. The problem is that it increases the opportunity costs of traveling to the core of the city and only reinforces heavy levels of suburbanization. As a matter of personal policy perspective, I want strong urban cores, and the only way we can achieve this is to promote quick links to from our periphery into the core. I'm sorry if it eats away at your fantasy, but we need to make transit as convenient and easy to use as possible, and if this means paying the workers less in order to have more trains per hour and lower fares, then so be it. Austerity means you have to give up the less important "nice to haves". Except public transport is not a nice to have. You're just making excusing to justify your ideal railroad which isn't particularly passenger friendly. Why should SEPTA provide canopies and heaters? Wear a fucking coat. Because I live in a fucking first world country, not Brazil du Nord. Given that the competition is a warm car, I think it's perfectly suitable to have some attempt at climate control. Hell, in frigging cheap ass Canada, my cousin's bus stop has a frigging heater. A frigging canopy really isn't much to ask for even if I have a coat and umbrella. |
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