A (long) Sunday read:
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A (long) Sunday read:
In the UK around 8% of all passenger kilometres travelled is by rail, the rest is by road (including buses); In Japan its nearly 28% by rail.
What have the Japanese done to keep this high(er) share of rail use. In short, they have returned to a model of regulation that looks much more like how the railways were bought into mass use in C19th; Japan's geography may also play a role but there's much of interest in this analysis.
#railways #politics
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A (long) Sunday read:
In the UK around 8% of all passenger kilometres travelled is by rail, the rest is by road (including buses); In Japan its nearly 28% by rail.
What have the Japanese done to keep this high(er) share of rail use. In short, they have returned to a model of regulation that looks much more like how the railways were bought into mass use in C19th; Japan's geography may also play a role but there's much of interest in this analysis.
#railways #politics
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-such-good-railways/Very interesting but I'm not convinced allowing mega corporations to own and control more of people's lives is necessarily better than state subsidies. Imagine techbros being given that opportunity. To coin the Tony Benn phrase, how can I get rid of you?
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Very interesting but I'm not convinced allowing mega corporations to own and control more of people's lives is necessarily better than state subsidies. Imagine techbros being given that opportunity. To coin the Tony Benn phrase, how can I get rid of you?
The Japanese corporate sector has a very different relation to the state, so yes in the UK's political circumstances that might be less advantageous than in Japan... (but we might also suggest, railways are not social media?)
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A (long) Sunday read:
In the UK around 8% of all passenger kilometres travelled is by rail, the rest is by road (including buses); In Japan its nearly 28% by rail.
What have the Japanese done to keep this high(er) share of rail use. In short, they have returned to a model of regulation that looks much more like how the railways were bought into mass use in C19th; Japan's geography may also play a role but there's much of interest in this analysis.
#railways #politics
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/why-japan-has-such-good-railways/@ChrisMayLA6 I think that some of difference is due to education and social engineering (large Japanese railway stations are also shopping and restaurant areas too, which helps make the society more railway centric)
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The Japanese corporate sector has a very different relation to the state, so yes in the UK's political circumstances that might be less advantageous than in Japan... (but we might also suggest, railways are not social media?)
Railways might not be social media, but wanting to monitor and influence every aspect of our lives while controlling, say, all the doors in all the buildings and every advertising hoarding... How could it possibly go wrong?
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Fair comment; although of course China's system is completely state-owned & until now the penetration of private car ownership has been much lower, so in its current social configuration it may not be entirely comparable.... and given the growth of car ownership in China, its high level of rail usage may decline (as with more developed economies).
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