• lntl@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    amazing that building, maintaining, and fueling a fleet of airplanes is more cost effective than a few engines, coaches, and track.

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        10 months ago

        Yea I got a fine because I took an Avanti North-west instead of an Avanti Wales train, on the same route -_- like wtf, if they are not the same company maybe they should not share the same name?

        thanks a lot margaret

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            10 months ago

            Penalty fare. I wsn’t in the right train even though they departed at the same time for the same destination.

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              What in the mother of fuck? Were they both totally full? Did you take a more expensive car than you’d paid for? That sounds nutter butters.

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                10 months ago

                Not even. It’s just not the same company, not the same train so I had to pay for a new ticket with an on-board penalty fee. In Belgium, when I want to go somewhere, I go to the station, I buy a ticket from my origin to my destination and I hop into the next train. But according to liberals that goes against the will of the invisible hand or something

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      10 months ago

      No taxes on fuel

      Trains use infrastructures and not the air

      it’s just 2 examples. Complain at your government if you want things to change.