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spacebanana7 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Britain's railway privatization was an abject fail...

Yeah there’s probably a way in which railways and water are natural monopolies, so are more difficult to privatise.

fhennig 8 months ago [–]

Yes, it's the tracks. Planes don't need tracks.

gcanyon 8 months ago | [–]

> Planes don't need tracks.

But let's all take a moment to acknowledge that it would be awesome if they had them. Can you imagine the shenanigans you could get up to designing a nationwide 40,000-foot-high rollercoaster system?

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