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If americans come to germany and act like german public Transport is the best, how frickin bad is american public Transport? (lemmy.ml)

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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?

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

I did some research and my city is almost 1:1 with Bielefeld Germany.

Bielefeld has 4 tram lines, 140 busses on a network that covers most of the city and established bike lanes. Wichita has 40 busses, 13 set bus routes, and 3 bike lanes in the whole city. I'm "lucky" enough to live two blocks from the nearest bus stop, but that bus route doesn't land anywhere near places I want to go. Great if you're in rehab thigh I guess.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

What is "Bielefeld"?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

It's a conspiracy.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

According to Wikipedia It's the 18th largest city in Germany.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

That is not true. Bielefeld is not real.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Ahh so that's Germany's North Dakota, makes even more sense that it's comparable to Wichita...

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