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[–] lemann@lemmy.one 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That one bus company in the nearby city that absolutely refuses to replace their miserable old buses 🥴🤡 while the others run modern air conditioned hybrids, and some fully electric

[–] Foofighter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have multiple bus companies in one city?

[–] lemann@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Privatisation ☹️

Recently the fares were combined so we no longer need to get separate tickets for each

[–] Serdan@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Having to buy different tickets for bus lines sounds miserable. Wtf.

[–] kurosawaa@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Multiple bus companies can be a good thing if done well. The busses in Taiwan are also privatized and the service is quite good. In Japan even the metro and rail networks compete in a private market.

When you privatize a company and make it a monopoly though you get the worst of both worlds.