If americans come to germany and act like german public Transport is the best, how frickin bad is american public Transport? - eviltoast

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?

  • Colonel_Panic_
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    17 days ago

    We don’t have public transportation over here. Over here in MURICA we pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and we float that way to wherever we need to go. Just a bunch of dumb Americans bending over grabbing their boots and flying around. Don’t visit, tis a silly place over here.

    I’ve been through Germany and a decent chunk of Europe and every single place had 100x better mass transit than here. It is hilarious to me hearing someone complaining that the bus was a few minutes late every day and over here the bus only arrives at 1 stop within range of you and only 2 times a day at best. And you probably have to walk 30 minutes to get to the stop. And the bus just takes you downtown to the business district, if you don’t want that tough luck, buy a car.

    Oh and the trains! OMG I loved the trains. I did night trains to other countries in Europe, I rode trains around Germany And Switzerland. Simple lovely. Not the most comfortable, but to do that in the US I would have had to rent a car and drive that whole way myself. Instead I got to take a nap, read a book, play cards with friends.