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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)
submitted 1 year ago* by to c/asklemmy@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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[–] 2 points 1 year ago

The part a lot of people miss in these threads is that European commutes are often also an hour on public transit, but that one hour radius is wider and there is actual useful last mile service in the suburbs. That's the big thing the US frequently lacks - the development patterns mean there's no way to run frequent busses that don't just get stuck in traffic. So in the US that one hour transit commute can easily turn into 90 minutes or more if you don't make connections, whereas in European cities it's much easier to plan around.

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