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by rgj 1534 days ago
20 years ago, the NS - the Dutch National Railroad company - tried to remove complication from the railroad schedule and got a lot of criticism from their employees because it would mean they would travel less far from their home stations. Train drivers said “so we will only be driving around our church”. It led to a lot of protests and eventually a lot of the plans were revoked.

See https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondje_om_de_kerk (in Dutch, use Google Translate to translate to a language of your choice).