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[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They need public transport but they are too proud to admit it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They want to monetize public transport without paying for building any new infrastructure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Except by subsidizing the tech bros to do it, they think they’re offloading the risk when it fails and the opposition can’t blame them.

Pretty much the same reason CEOs are paid so much to be the fall guys, and also why CEOs and tech bros both think they are so much better than the rest of us.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Don't forget the politicians probably also get campaign donations and/or free publicity from being involved...

Also they get to use up unused railways, it's like future austerity by preventing those lines being reopened or repurposed as bicycle paths in the future...