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If americans come to germany and act like german public Transport is the best, how frickin bad is american public Transport? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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Genuine Question. Even if I look at hungarian Transport, and they to this day use trains from the UdSSR, they come more consistantly then the DB.

They are really Bad sometimes, with like 20 seperate prices: Theres the bayernwald ticket that only works in the alps, then theres the official ticket to the destination. Theres a special offer, but only in the very special APP. You can use a d-ticket, but look! Some random ass slum in the middle of the worlds ass dosent accept that, but it does the MVV zone Tickets. But then you need the MVV zone 11-M, a ticket to the beginning to the Nürnberg zones, and a ticket for the Nürnberg zones.

And yet this shit is better than americas rails? How?

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[–] 14 points 1 year ago*

While in college, I needed to attend an event at another campus two hours away by car. I had no car. But I did try to look for a bus route:

  • Four hours down to the nearest major city with a bus terminal
  • Two hour stop in said city
  • Five hours back up to the starting latitude at my destination
  • Arrive Friday, attend the 6-hour function on Saturday, find somewhere to stay, and wait until Monday afternoon to make the same trip again in reverse.

I eventually found a friend who could drive me there and back, but we still had to get up at 05:00 on a Saturday to make it in time. Also, no Uber or Lyft, it was too rural to have drivers available at any given time. How glamorous it would have been if I could just hop on the train to the next town.

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