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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)

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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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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not too long ago, I saw a map showing where each train is in USA. Someone also posted a similar maps from Switzerland. Can you guess which one had more trains?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

DB: "At least we're not National Rail."

National Rail: "At least we're not Amtrak."

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago

I'm 30 years old and have taken a bus once in my entire life. Not because it sucks but because it's simply nonexistent. I'd have to drive 30 minutes just to get to the place that had the public transport and at that point I might as well just drive all the way there. And I don't even think the US has any trains that go between cities anymore except for commercial trains. I literally live next to a train track and it's all cargo trains. I've never seen a passenger car on a train in my entire life. Could just be where I live, but I've driven from coast to coast and the only trains are cargo trains.

[–] [email protected] 147 points 3 days ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Lmao what public transport? We don't have that here.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (15 children)

Really? Like... How do you move around then? Only cars? But if you dont want / have a car? If youre still doing your drivers license?

[–] [email protected] 116 points 3 days ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

Fuck you, that's how. It's pretty much only cars. Not having a car isn't really an option here, unless maybe you live in the heart of a big city.

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