Railroaded by Fare Increases
December 31, 2002
THE train looked really sorry for itself. Some of its windows were smashed, several seats were skewed backwards and many of the toilets were clogged up with old newspapers. Don’t bother to even ask about the smell emanating from the toilets, which were attracting hordes of big black flies. This train was waiting to pick up passengers at Senen station on Friday afternoon last week. This economy class train regularly travels between Indonesia
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