[sustran] Chris Zegras on Profitable urban transit

[Dinesh Mohan]

This debate on the possibility of private public transit being 
profitable  seems to be among people debating the merits of capitalism vs 
socialism and not about public transit.  Quite sterile, really!  
Developing countries are not on Mars. Some of the people dabating these 
issues should have the minimum honesty of living in these societies, 
using diffrent transport modes over long periods of time, understanding 
the social and qualitative and political effects of different transport 
policies before commenting on how "successful" certain private operations 
are.  I suppose people who don't want political interference in descision 
making would prefer fascist dictators instead.

	Batman and Superman are better reads if one just wants to be 
convinced about unbridled free enterprise as the perfect ideology to live by.

					Dinesh Mohan

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