stackyFACTSTaking a funicular up a steep hill costs vastly more per mile than any normal rail ticket. Because they hold a total monopoly on avoiding a massive staircase, operators gleefully extort lazy sightseers with wildly inflated fares for a journey that lasts less than two minutes.
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