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I'm British and I came to Berlin a couple of weeks ago.
That shit was 10x better than London and 100x better than the rest of the country
Don't be dogging on Newcastle Transport like that. My grandpa used to be able to get anywhere in the UK by walking to the North Shields station and hopping on the light rail for free to Newcastle station. Just because the southerns ruined their rail systems doesn't mean the Geordies trashed theirs.
Funnily enough I'm a Sanddancer, and you're absolutely right.
The transport links through Tyne and Wear are easily 2nd best in the country, but they're still a long way from London, and they continue to get worse year on year.
Our country in general is too Americanised, too reliant on cars now. I feel anyone who has really visited Europe can see just how far we lag behind in terms of transport networks.
I grew up stateside, but it blows anything we have in Ohio out of the water. Cleveland is the only city on the state that has am actual light rail, which functions ok (i did get stuck in the downtown station for 45 minutes due to a breakdown while we received zero information from anyone at the station. A lady had to call RTA to figure out what was going on while we sweat it out on a hot and crowded underground stop). Toledo and Elyria have an Amtrak station, Cincinnati has about 4 miles of streetcar rail downtown and a few bus lines, while Columbus only has buses for a metro population of over 2.2 million. Where i grew up, St. Louis, the city wanted to expand rail routes out to the suburbs, but the residents of the suburbs shut it down because the white residents were "worried about crime" coming into the suburbs from downtown. Our systems are absolutely fucked out here.
I love the idea of criminals commuting out of the city to work.
Like, there's a bunch of stores in the city, and thousands of people where crime is easily accessible, but no, lets go to the suburbs instead.
Fuck it, why not go rural and go steal a bull - I heard they can get you a few bucks 😂
But yeah, so much of America is just fucked without a car that even places I'd consider to have bad transport links would look otherworldly to some people from the States.
To be fair Berlin is 100x better than the rest of Germany.
Am I in the minority, thinking that the London Underground is actually pretty amazing? Wherever I was across the huge area the city takes up, I rarely needed to check a timetable- There would be a station within walking distance, I could be relatively confident that a train would turn up within fifteen minutes and get me to basically anywhere in London in fairly short order.
The London Underground and New York City Subway systems are all pretty good, but the rest of their respective country’s rail network is pretty crap in comparison.