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by marxisttemp 169 days ago
You can’t. Every attempt at privatizing rail is a failure with worse performance, higher prices, and an inevitable level of special treatment by the state due to the monopolistic utility-like nature of rail infrastructure. Not everything needs to or should be privatized.
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This 100%. It should be seen as critical infrastructure because of everything it can enable when run well.