"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Kind of proof that privatizing public infrastructure does not work without very tight regulations.

The profits and benefits in infrastructure go towards a state and are long term. A private company cannot increase their stock price on a 100 year goal and a countries GDP growth.

Not sure what socialism has to do with getting multiple ticket systems to speak to each other. I sometimes worry HN is astroturfed but I tend to read comments like this more simply as trolling.

All those socialist... Companies? With their socialist coding?

Maybe they also use Marx# (M#) with a socialist software architecture.

Huh? I mean if anything the problem here was privatisation of local transport (and too much faith in said privatised transport by the national authorities), which doesn’t seem _particularly_ socialist.