On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:44 PM, frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Bob W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> there's your answer. These things can only work when they're run as a >> service, and only the state can afford to do that.<snip> > > You're right, of course. The only problem with state-run railroads > (or state-run anything else, for that matter) is that it's only a > matter of time until the neo-cons take over and start lowering taxes, > slashing budgets and privatizing Things That Work, for idiological > rather than financial reasons. > > We used to have a state-run railroad in Canada. Now it's a private > corporation. Maybe it's efficient, but it doesn't serve the country > as it once did... > > cheers, > frank
We did have a State-Run railroad (CNR) for a while. It never worked very well (was nationalized from several badly run railroads, then was badly run for a number of years as a state-run railroad, then was a badly run private railroad until it bought out a smaller US RR that ended up running things much better). The always-private CPR was the RR that served the country well until it decided to not be a national RR anymore about 10 years ago. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
