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6 hours agoThe Nürnberg zones
The VGN has the benefit of being yuge at least.
I think Brandenburg’s is the whole state + Berlin. So that’s even better.
Not like the Deutschlandticket has any real future unfortunately. Gotta see if it at least survives the Merz government.
As for DB - the ICE are horrible when it comes to reliability, but I found the regional trains actually mostly pretty good. Even if they have the tendency to be kinda dirty and always have broken toilets.
Too late. Railways have been converted to a public-private partnership in the 90s, and are trying to get broken up into a competitive market these days anyway, and local public transportation is also run by public-private companies. In the countryside, it’s usually managed by a private company in the first place, often organized in local organizations of several firms that offer the same fares - which usually has hard borders and can for example lead to villages next to each other having a 5 h connection time through railways, which don’t follow these area bounds.