Assignment 2

The big train problem

If you are going from Karlstad to Stockholm by train and If you have the possiblity to book the ticket early you can be lucky and find a ticket for a good and sometimes a very good price. If you you dont have that possibility it can be a very expensive journey. And in todays society many people live a hectic life and can´t plan their journeys weeks before. Of course it´s ok to have a good price for those who can plan their journey a long time before departure, exactly as they do in almost every travel industries. But however I think that the differences between the ticket prices are way too much. For example on a journey with the morning train from Karlstad to Stockholm with X2000 the cheepest tickets were just over 100 kronor and the most expensive ones were almost 2000 kronor, both in second class.

The government talks about how they care about the enviroment and that people should be more environmentally friendly. For example the government want us to leave the car home and to skip going by plane and go by train instead. But when it is that expensive to go by train as it is today and when its sometimes even cheaper to take a cab from Karlstad to Stockholm its going to be hard. I think that most people rather go by car beacuse its easier in some ways or by plane beacuse of the short travelling time and of course because of the cheaper price.

So I definitely think that SJ which is owned by the goverment has to do something about the prices if they wants to have more peolpe going with them. If they succeed with this they will get more satisfied customers and a cleaner environment. Humans and nature together in harmony. Just think about it. Think. Think hard.

//Anna