A few commie and socialist fucks were upset to see the fair hike on trains in India.
Based Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu tweets a retard friendly chart for better understanding of the prices.
0.007$ per km fair, 73km in 0.66$ i.e. a price of 1kg sugar, 194-225km in 1.27$ i.e. price of 1kg apples/a geometry box, 266-278km in 1.42$ i.e. price of 140g toothpaste/1kg detergent and 293km in 1.49$ i.e. a price of a broom.
Bump and kek.
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Oh shit, that's cheap train travel. Pretty much the polar opposite of (((SJ))) who is always jewing everyone.
Thanks.
This is a stretch of 282 kilometers. It starts at $60.
So your train travelling cost is equal to our air travelling cost. Wow.
Yep, and it's cheaper to just drive the stretch. And flying to Stockholm (almost the double distance) only costs $10 more.
Our airlines are cheapest in the world and the fair goes down the longer the distance you cover. Pic related.
No fucking wonder you see shit like this in your country:
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Those are just free loaders.
>$3.25 per 100 km
Shit that's cheap
I wonder how the driver can see out.
>Airfare from Berlin to London = 4,99€
>Busfare from Berlin to London = 54,50€
>Trainfare from Berlin to London = 361,50€
Now let's look at something more reasonable. Berlin to Köln is less than ~4 hour train ride
>Airfare from Berlin to Köln = 9,99€
>Busfare from Berlin to Köln = 30€
>Trainfare from Berlin to Köln = 89,90€
Railway is expensive as fuck in western Europe. Budget airlines have completely killed it. Even regional travel,
Yup
That's what happens when you privatize railways.
Yes, it's really fucked up. Thank the western governments that are fucking it up with regulations and a lot of ownership of transportation.
I heard that flying domestically from Gothenburg to Skellefteå (in the north) costs $600. But flying the same strech via London only costs $150.
>(((privatize)))
Aren't your railways private?
SUPER POWEER BY 2020
No. The government owns all the rails and operates the biggest passenger operator and a lot of the smaller ones.
If Marxists could understand numbers, then they wouldn't be Marxists. This chart changes nothing.
Why do Indians wear pajamas all the time?
And still they are so expensive? Our railways are the biggest employer in the world and yet manages to keep suck low fares.
Kek.
Cotton pajamas for tropical weathers, saves from heat and mosquitoes.
It once cost me over $750.00 to go from Chicago to Devil's Lake, North Dakota and back - in coach - and we were delayed five hours on the way up and eighteen hours on the way home. It was due to the oil companies lobbying for 100% right-of-way on those train tracks 24 hours a day. By your calculations, my trip would've cost about twelve bucks round-trip. I'd go Ice fishing in North Dakota every winter for those prices. Granted, I have a feeling that the deeply-reclining padded coach seats on Amtrak, with two feet of legroom and power outlets and large trays to support your laptop are probably a bit more comfortable than a Lucknow coach seat.
>And still they are so expensive? Our railways are the biggest employer in the world and yet manages to keep suck low fares.
Does the indian taxpayers subsidize the trains? Here they don't and the government are even making a profit from all those who are stupid enough to use it.
How much does it cost to drive?
Our railways ran in loss for decades but they have been running in profits for a few years.
We had a separate budget for railways till this year, from 2017 they will come under finance ministry for faster allocation of funds.
It'd definitely be less, provided you have a car and wanted to drive. At the time, I didn't have a car - don't need one in the city. At the time, it was about $5.00 a gallon for gasoline. It's about 721 miles from my apartment to Devil's Lake and my current car gets about 30 miles to the gallon. Even factoring in snacks and drinks for the trip, insurance costs, tire wear and even an oil change when I get back, it's still easily under $300.00, and gas is half that price now.
Had I known that we'd be delayed so long, I'm still not sure I'd have driven there. It's a long, tedious motherfucker of a drive through heavy snow.
Also, the cost would've been split three ways. We each paid over $750 for our tickets, so the total transportation costs would've been about $2000 less if we had driven.
Train = car if driving alone. Tgen you need to rent a car at your destination which kills it
Gas is 1.9$ per gallon i.e. 0.62$ per liter in my state. Gas prices are different in different states here.