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?
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.