Re: [Melb] Cheap train fares dumped

["Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au>]

"Martin Bienwald" <obelix@fim.informatik.uni-mannheim.de> wrote in message
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> Daniel Bowen <dbowen@custard.REMOVE.net.au> wrote:
>
> : I read it as: "most outer suburbs families own two cars, therefore public
> : transport is poor"
>
> : I think it's more like: "outer suburbs public transport is poor, therefore
> : most families own two cars".
>
> Well, probably both is true. People buy cars and stop using public
> transport, therefore buses are running empty, leading to service cuts,
> which in turn let more people buy a car and stop using PT.
>
> After a few turns around, no one knows who started it anymore.


Chicken or egg?