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Nobody takes a train from Germany to France (lemmy.skoops.social)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.skoops.social/post/727

crossposted: https://lemmy.skoops.social/post/665

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[–] 190 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You can go from Paris to Stuttgart in less 3h 30min by train. No customs, no TSA, downtown to downtown.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    In the current political climate, border control is unfortunate becoming much more common. I had the border policy empty our bus and search everyone with dogs and half of us had to open our bags.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    On my vacation in Germany we were not once asked on the train for our passports. We are white. The police would demand every non-white persons' "visa" and most of the time the questioned individual would produce a German ID or an ID from another EU member state.

    It was a sad sight.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Couple of years ago only they would just check everyone's id in a rather respectful way. Might depend on the border being crossed?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    We took the trains from Germany to the Czech Republic and back. Then from Germany to Austria and back. Finally we went to France.

    I recall some checks on regional trains as well, including in Bavaria and I want to say around Berlin but I can't remember where exactly.

    Not once were we asked though, all checks were selective and clearly biased

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    TGV > ICE

    I stopped counting how many times the ICE broke down on this route. Of course I also had delays when using the TGV but not due to the train itself. Also the seats in the ICE are not comfortable at all.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    DB is just fucked tbh, it needs serious reformulating.

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