At least then you know that you are being watched and recorded by some creep with a drone. It is disturbing how society tolerates these pretty-secret surveillance devices just because they can take videos that look like those documentaries on TV, yay...
Competition in this situation usually IS a bad thing. Private companies snag the financially viable and lucrative lines, leaving the essential yet money-sink lines for public companies.
Resulting in the collapse of the public one or, at best, cutting costs and reducing commuter lines from smaller towns/villages.
I don't see the problem. They could make a bunch of tunnels and put cars in them. Think about how efficient it would be! Hundreds of passengers per hour!
I think it can appear good on the surface and initially (cheaper tickets wow!) but then for example here in the UK you have newer train operators with special statuses, who have different compensation schemes, who choose to interpret legislation in different ways etc.
eg LNER (an older much larger rail brand) often refuse to carry passengers with a Grand Central (a newer low cost operator) ticket when there is disruption because of internal disagreements between the two companies and different interpretation of the law/contract. This is confusing, annoying and often very expensive for passengers when they board an LNER train (as it’s the next one) and get told they have to buy new tickets
It reminds me of low cost airlines and look at the state of flying these days. Everyone is “low cost” but often without the low cost part. Ie it dragged the bar down so low
It looks like it can work if you do everything right, but it can also go very wrong. I think you will always need a central party to coordinate stuff, because letting a bunch of profit-driven railroads arrange this amongst themselves sounds like a recipe for disaster. But that central organisation needs to be run very well, or you still get disaster. Having everything in the hands of a single party has obvious advantages, but also obvious disadvantages. Competition clearly works well enough in some countries, and not so well in others.
I think a thorough analysis of where it works and where it doesn't, and why, would be really interesting.
Problem with FlixTrain is that they have "low priority". This means if there are delays caused by Deutsche Bahn (Which is basically always) FlixTrain must always give way to Deutsche Bahn trains to allow them to catch up.
Yes, this is just a short branch to service their factory. Not what people usually mean when they say 'railway line' (which would usually have more than one station).
Not many details in the article but it says they built a station, which probably means the trains they have contracted come from a station on the main line (not owned by Tesla), branch off and run to the Telsa station and then go back.
Warning, the reaction to massive security issues in a bundled PDF reader of the file manager made me uninstall all of these apps. Safety of my device and data is paramount.
