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[-] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah thatcher caused issue when ahe privatized rail operators. She didn't privatize network rail though, which are the guys responsible for building and maintaining the track including electrification projects. So I don't think you can pin this one on her. Electrification is prohibitively expensive and incomplete in pretty much every country with older rail networks including the USA, UK, and parts of the EU.

Also if you don't want to get insulted maybe stop assuming where I live and what I know about. It's insulting when people go "In Europe we do x", like brah I live in Europe and I know about x. X isn't always the solution to every problem. This is becoming a hammer nail thing.

[-] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

The post is about Biden and Trump. Sorry for assuming things. But that doesn't mean you have to call me muppet. "I'm British and I disagree" (or something like that) would be better.

[-] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

If the transport companies don't require electric vehicles the infrastructure company won't builds it. I don't say that's the case but it could be. If everybody has only a bicycle you don't spend money on a highway.

[-] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That makes no sense. The government owns the railway, not the companies. They are the ones struggling to put in electric lines.

Also battery electric trains are a big step up from diesel. I don't get why you are complaining.

[-] bufalo1973@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

My bad. I was going to rant about the relation between train companies having to change the trains.

But I just remembered who is "governing" UK.

[-] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah the conservative party is not great, you're not wrong there.

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