Only if the trains are given enough budget that there is a train every 5 minutes (or less) at every station, the train routes provide reasonable ability to get anywhere, and the trains run "fast".
No train system in the world has all of that, which in turn means they need more money and so free riders harm the system's ability to get people where they want to go.
Sadly it is illegal in Germany to have a tax for a specific thing. So that’s that. But then there is GEZ which is basically the same thing just for TV :shrug:
It's especially egregious the neoliberals here insisted it only be bookable as a subscription, not as a paper ticket. Mostly so that very low income / homeless people couldn't use it. Almost like they hate the poor or something.
While I really like the German transport system, and I have been paying it for 5 years, making it mandatory seems too much. What if I don't have a need for it? Or if I barelly use it?
My taxes pays for many public infrastructures I don’t use too.
Taxes and public subsidies for infrastructures are especially powerful on networks because the output service is spread in many cross dimensional layers of the nation.
bluGill|2 years ago
No train system in the world has all of that, which in turn means they need more money and so free riders harm the system's ability to get people where they want to go.
aziaziazi|2 years ago
roboben|2 years ago
wolfi1|2 years ago
ulfw|2 years ago
As a random example here is a tax for sparkling wines. No, not import custom fees. A tax.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schaumweinsteuer
ulfw|2 years ago
So why bother with the overhead in the first place? Make it free for everyone to use to hop/on/off as they please, like Luxembourg has done.
asmor|2 years ago
kwanbix|2 years ago
aziaziazi|2 years ago
Taxes and public subsidies for infrastructures are especially powerful on networks because the output service is spread in many cross dimensional layers of the nation.