Mastodawn

𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇Oct 2, 2025

"I'm puzzled when people say the Swiss have good transportation because they're rich. It has nothing to do with that. They're still using trams from 1970. They restore them every 7 years. Making do is part of the culture. If you're using trams for 50 years, that's a hell of a savings."

—Norman Garrick

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Simon Zerafa

@straphanger

Indeed. Their mechanical and electrical systems are probably fairly straightforward to maintain with basic tools.

No need to update the firmware on the Engine Management System to fix a bug introduced by Russian or Chinese hackers, as a totally random example 🙄