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I have to say that I do find this framing which says "well, it didn't affect business, so no big deal" to be somewhat distasteful. It's completely dehumanising. Why run the trains at all at the weekend, if a weekend outage is no big deal?



That's not the framing. For the majority of travelers, missing a weekend trip is an annoyance. In contrast, missing their work is a major headache, for them personally. It also cascades pretty badly if it happens on a lathe scale - meetings get pushed and overlap others, suplliers are not able to deliver, stalling production, financial operations get delayed, potentially affecting deadlines - it's a huge mess in everyone's life that won't just go away when trains come back. It's also as true for non-profits, state organizations and schools as it is for businesses.




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