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    1. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Aug 2017

      FirstGroup operates buses all over UK, Ireland, Canada, USA--including Greyhound (and thus Peter Pan) and some 50,000 public school buses...

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      Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Aug 2017

      ...they also operate railways throughout the UK and near Dallas (A-Train). Mixed feelings about them...

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        2. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Aug 2017
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          Most of my experience with them is via Peter Pan, the remainder is from my trip to the UK earlier this year. UK experience was better...

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        3. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Aug 2017
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          Their MO seems to be to corner markets and then neglect them--specifically, to neglect customer experience.

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        4. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Aug 2017
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          In markets that they haven't locked down, they put a little more effort into comfort & quality, but God forbid enough people fall for it

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        5. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Aug 2017
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          MTR Corp is another private transport operator, based in Hong Kong (where they operate the rail network) but operating worldwide...

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        6. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Aug 2017
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          ...including in Stockholm, London, Melbourne, Sydney, Beijing, Hangzhou, and Shenzhen. Unfortunately I have no personal experience w them...

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        7. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Aug 2017
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          ...but that may change as they now own 30% of the South Western Franchise (FirstGroup, ofc, has the rest), which I've always used when in UK

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        8. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Aug 2017
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          MTR is also interested in cornering markets (they merged w the Kowloon-Canton Railway to monopolize rail in HK), but seems to follow thru...

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        9. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Aug 2017
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          ...which is to say, once they've cornered a market, they try to *GROW* it instead of just neglecting it

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        10. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Aug 2017
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          Investing heavily in their station environments and surroundings, adding new routes, etc. Similar to Japanese rail companies...

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        11. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Aug 2017
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          ...but not as heavily diversified as some of them (consider Tokyu or Kintetsu, which--among their other ventures--manufacture trains)

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        12. Haunted Forrest  🌲‏ @380kmh 24 Aug 2017
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          Anyway--this is just a rambling thread against the "captive audience" mentality of operating a monopoly. Gross waste of opportunity.

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