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Nice the train is only 15 minutes late? That’s awesome - me riding any train in the US
Wait until you hear about Spanish trains.
Some infantile meme about public transport while his regime has been helping genocide in Palestine and Syria for years.
This lib has got his priorities straight.
Also you’ve misspelled ‘fakely left-wing’ in your bio.
And, can you ban me here too fash?I think this level of derailing in a post about trains is irresponsible.
Delay. Deflect. Derail.
OP is a mod banning anyone opposing his regime appologetics.
And I think your german fascist US bootlicking warmongering government is irresponsible. Worry about thatI don’t know this mod but I do know that I have PugJesus blocked on my other accounts for some reason. I guess I’ll block him on this one too
Maybe it’s best I do too, he spouts so much BS I’m getting tired of countering it all the time.
Meanwhile in Japan: Train is 30 seconds late “here’s a letter for your employer explaining why you were only 29 minutes and 30 seconds early for your 8 hour shift that will inevitably have an additional 8 hours of unpaid overtime tacked on to it.”
Japan transit- Am I a joke to you?
American here: yeah, not far off.
Meanwhile in Greece:
Germany’s known for having terrible rail. Probably on account of BMW lobbying.
Really? As an American who had never ridden a train before, I was impressed by Germany’s public transit. I remember wishing we had such systems everywhere over here.
Honestly though, I’d prefer high speed mag-lev systems that run like clockwork.
Germany’s known for poor rail, America’s known for no rail.
BMW, VW and Mercedes. The German Bundesbahn was perfect then the CDU, CSU and FDP killed it due to lobbyism. Now, the politicians suck the cocks of the CEOs of the mentioned companies. SPD and Grüne always say that the Deutsche Bahn needs more money, but they had the chance between 98 and 05. Did they change something? No there was not enough money according to them.
Not even the biggest thing that beautiful trio ruined. Their lobbying and Mutti Merkel’s politics were the main contributors to the Hungary problem. So if you want to know why common defense policies get vetoed or why is the Ukraine response is a shitshow, the root cause is that VW needed cheap exploitable workers.
Most of my country doesn’t have trains. The only train on time goes to the airport, yes THE airport. Everything else is buss for train. And I purposely didn’t mention the country but everyone from here knows it when they read buss for train.
funny but inaccurate
i live in vienna. the train comes so often, nobody bothers to check the schedule anymore. just wait 2 mins, enter, go.
Same in Paris.
“What do you mean I have to wait 4 minutes for the next metro?”
Meanwhile in Belgium,
“I don’t know where or when will I end up after I board the bus back home from work”
American here - I recently started taking the train to go to work! Previously I couldn’t due to no trains scheduled for the return home trip after my shift was over, but after getting a new schedule, I got on board the train! So far in the past two months, I’ve already had a few instances of the train being delayed or missing it entirely. One day, the train was delayed by 30 minutes and stated they would be held for an unknown amount of time to put out a fire on the tracks at a station ahead - drove into work that day. Another day, the train was delayed by 5 minutes. Outside of that, I was late to the train by like 5 minutes and it left without me (still adjusting to early morning schedule).
So far, I like taking the train much more than driving the car.
I’m Polish but I also made the switch to use public transport instead of my car, even though it’s not the cheapest once you’re not a student anymore. I feel better though knowing how much fuel I save by not driving in traffic for 1.5h 4 days a week. The other thing is that the money goes to the city so I will likely benefit from it in some way
Of course the trains leave without you if you are 5 min late.
It will leave without you if you are 30 seconds late.
Never said it shouldn’t! Just means it’s running on time. Like I said, I’m still adjusting to the early schedule.
I owned a car in Toronto. I still took the train DT. Driving DT literally was longer then the train.
You haven’t seen Croatian rail then ;)
Me When My metro train (Santiago) doesn’t immediately arrive as soon as i touch the platform.
You clearly havent heard of swedish trains.
The railroad here is a bad joke at this point, mainly due to shutting down the organization that was responsible for maintainence and shoving it into another agency that has no clue. As a bonus the new agency doesn’t even do the repair work themselves but hires contractors at the lowest bidder. So stuff breaks constantly, which causes delays.
At this point just getting the rail network to “normal” standards would cost billions. Let alone expanding it to cope with current traffic levels.
To be fair, most higher density areas in Sweden have fairly good infrastructure for public transit. The national railways are a disgrace, but that mostly affects long distance travel. Mostly. Short to medium distance commute works fairly well everywhere I’ve tried it.
Scandinavia has more in common with Canada when it comes to public transportation
Canada has high speed trains?
[cries in Swedish]
It’s funny, but after traveling around Europe, I’ve learned one important lesson: avoid booking flights with short layovers! If the transfer time is less than 3-4 hours, you’re playing a risky game. Delays happen more often than you’d think, and in some cases, flights get pushed to the next day due to ‘bad weather’ (or other mysterious reasons). Better to have a buffer than to get stuck at the airport overnight!
