This makes me so angry. If we are to have any chance of surviving as a society beyond 2050, we need to dramatically reduce our car use. This means a massive modal shift to public transport. So what are NS doing to help this? Hiking prices, and taking actions to disincentivise travel. "Most of the day we're moving air" no you're moving people. You're providing a service. Public transport is there to transport the public. We need more of it. And it needs to be cheaper.
@quixoticgeek if they're "moving air", why? What's the block on people using it? Most likely the bus/train/whatever is not reliable enough, not cheap enough, not frequent enough, or doesn't go where people want to go. All of these are fixable, but not by increasing fares and decreasing services.
@TomSwirly alas I can't vote. The limit of my power is in ranting on Mastodon :( but yes. If those of you who can vote could get rid of him that would be good. Something groenlinks would be nice please.
What makes this even more ineffective is that in .NL most people don't pay for their commute. Employers typically cover that. So if my train to work goes up by 25%, I don't care, I'm not paying. It's not going to make me not travel to work.
If your problem is overcrowding. Run more trains. I'm not seeing any announcements about how they are increasing capacity on the network.
Oh and maybe think about a better design than the VIRM. The dwell time on it is horrendous.
E.g. my cities' station (Nijmegen) simply cannot handle more trains without the tracks layout getting an overhaul. This is work in progress, but a giant, multi-year task.
Only once that's done, can the frequency of trains to north go up. Those are the trains that go via Utrecht. So, many trains from Utrecht cannot up the frequency: Nijmegen is a bottleneck for a large part of NL. There are many such bottlenecks. All being worked on already.
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