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David Benton wrote:I rode the copper canyon train in the late eighties. It took me 3 days to get a ticket , the trains were so full. I don't understand how demand went from trains been full to apparently hardly enough to have a bare minimum of trains in 10 years or so .
It seems a political decision to appease the new owners under privatisation , rather than lack of demand, that left to the demise of most of Mexico's trains.
philipmartin wrote:David Benton wrote:I rode the copper canyon train in the late eighties. It took me 3 days to get a ticket , the trains were so full. I don't understand how demand went from trains been full to apparently hardly enough to have a bare minimum of trains in 10 years or so .
It seems a political decision to appease the new owners under privatisation , rather than lack of demand, that left to the demise of most of Mexico's trains.
You'd think the private operators would make money where there is demand for the service. How do they make money not operating it?
David Benton wrote:It seems a political decision to appease the new owners under privatisation , rather than lack of demand, that left to the demise of most of Mexico's trains.
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