[ahartmetz]

The one good thing is that they failed to take it private. Imagine how bad it would be with the current maintenance backlog and no public funding.

[robocat]

The New Zealand government sold their rail system, then Toll didn't make a success of it, so the government bought it back at a massive loss.

Now rail is just a nightmare moneypit. But older voters love rail "it's efficient" so the government panders to them and wastes more taxes on it.