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?
The infrastructure is set up for cars, and then everyone has to drive their own car because we can’t share a space respectfully. The only time I’d consider riding the bus is if I didn’t have a car and if I had to for work. In the states the view towards public transportation is that if you depend on it you’re not doing too well, which is sad. I commute 70 miles 1 way to work and would love to have a bullet train or something as an option. But as it is now, no, it’s not even an option. I had a previous coworker that took 2 buses to work every day, and he was always telling me about the “interesting” people he’d run into on the bus, like a guy with a puppet at 7:00 in the morning, or the drivers that didn’t know the schedule so they couldn’t tell him when another bus would be coming. No thanks.