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minus-squareCheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up34·1 year agoIsn’t that a good thing? sounds like the rail is being run as a public utility rather than a business. And its still likely profitable if you average the cost over all the lines.
minus-squarezephyreks@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up15·1 year agoIt makes economic sense but not financial sense. Railways are almost always profitable once considering second and third order effects. It’s the same story with Amtrak, so I’m not sure why people are so confused. Amtrak loses money on every train that’s not the NEC.
minus-squareoff_apparition@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoAre they siding with the hunter or the emissary this time?
minus-squaremycorrhiza they/them@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·1 year agodid you mean to say utility instead of unity?
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Isn’t that a good thing? sounds like the rail is being run as a public utility rather than a business. And its still likely profitable if you average the cost over all the lines.
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It makes economic sense but not financial sense. Railways are almost always profitable once considering second and third order effects.
It’s the same story with Amtrak, so I’m not sure why people are so confused. Amtrak loses money on every train that’s not the NEC.
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Are they siding with the hunter or the emissary this time?
did you mean to say utility instead of unity?