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Another item on the news yesterday (too tired then to remember to blog about that one): the NMBS, our national railroad company, is about to hire ~450 new people, since they're planning to increase their capacity in a few years and they'll need to have the personnel to keep up with that.

I assume they have some sort of a business plan to get the passengers to actually fill those trains. But still. Might I make a small suggestion?

<breathes>

ACTUALLY MAKE YOUR FUCKING PRICES AFFORDABLE!

Right now, I can buy a bus pass for a whole year for all of Flanders for less than the price of my train pass for the trip from my home town to Mechelen for one month, which isn't even remotely comparable to a bus pass for "all of Flanders".

Get your prices down by at least half, and I'm sure you'll probably get a shitload of extra customers. Sure, the bus gets subsidies to be that cheap; but I don't see why you wouldn't be able to get those either.

And yes, I'm quite sure that dropping prices will get you a lot more customers than adding wireless connectivity to your trains, which you're working on. Even if I personally find that quite interesting, I think most of your (potential) customers couldn't care less.