![]() ![]() ![]() The overall revenue and productivity generated by business in the city starts to drop precipitously. ![]() When public transportation isn’t working, whether it is due to a strike or some other event, the city virtually stops working, only running on inertia or from the very few who so happen to be situated within walking or bike distance. The roads are impossibly jammed and even if one manages to get to work by road, there’s usually no place to park. For those of us that have tried to commute in a heavily congested city when public transportation is on strike, many don’t even bother trying to get to work at all. Why do we have national railway networks? I’d be insulting the reader’s intelligence if I had to explain the obvious reason, that people need to get in and out of the city to work, amongst many reasons. Gotta be in the black!Īs for making a loss, well, heck, isn’t that what metro municipal railways do anyway? Why do we have to make a profit out of everything? There are a few exceptions in which some railways do make a profit but the vast majority of them simply do not. After all, as a private business, it’s all about money, money and money. Undoubtedly, if that happens, the railway will deteriorate, services will be cutting, prices will go up. The words ‘privatised’ made my heart sink. He started to talk about the future of the railway, how the metro is making a loss and the likelihood that it’s going to be privatised. During a New Year’s party at a friend’s house, I started talking to a guy called Bruce who works for the Adelaide Metro as an electrician. ![]()
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