if they were renting their stations, etc, from other landowners they'd be screwed
plenty of different private transit companies in the Tokyo area, the Nagoya area, the Osaka area, etc
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Osaka and Nagoya both have Kintetsu - Osaka is if anything too competitive (it's the world's #2 urban rail network).
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by "too competitive" what problems are you referring to?
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Post-Amagasaki stories about how JR West overvalues punctuality as a competitive edge. Also, lack of coordination causing Shigaraki.
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Amagasaki happened once fam; what is shigaraki?
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so...two disasters over the course of the last 25 years? disasters which have more causes than "competition," to boot
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Yes, but there really are complaints that JR West overvalues punctuality and compromises on safety.
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I know--but that kind of insane tradeoff a) can't just be blamed on "competition," and b) has hopefully stopped since 2005
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The Nagoya area has JR Central, which has little real estate and lives off of Shinkansen profits.
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are you forgetting Meitetsu and Kintetsu? plus a couple of smaller ones
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