• 4 Posts
  • 68 Comments
Joined 11 days ago
cake
Cake day: April 12th, 2026

help-circle
  • The private owners of the line in question are the government of Denmark and the smaller towns around the city of Copenhagen.

    Yeah, I hate it as well how the Finnish railways is organized. By it being a “Ltd.” type of organization, it manages to incorporate the worst sides of both private ownership and public ownership in one. Almost any solution would be better than ours.

    But it’s still not private. Words have meanings and if we misuse them, we lose our ability to protect ourselves for example from actual privatization.


  • Ah, okay, so this route does not belong to Banedanmark, but to Hovedstadens Lokalbaner.

    However, the web site of HL says:

    Inden fusionen havde Hovedstadens Udviklingsråd overtaget statens aktier i privatbanerne, således at Hovedstadens Udviklingsråd ejer ca. 45% af aktierne i det nye selskab. Den øvrige aktiekapital ejes af amter og kommuner, som tidligere var aktionærer i de private baner.

    ^^ This means that all of HL belongs to government and municipalities. It also says that originally the routes had been largely privatized, but they were deprivatized in 2002.