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trains rule
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this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2026
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Yes, most of it works fine but when it doesn't:
With a car:
You see multiple news every day about trains in Spain,Poland or Germany with broken AC or just completely failing between stations.
They usually advise you not to get out of your car for the exact reason they advise you not to get off the train.
I'm not sure what's exclusive to trains about breaking down in the middle of nowhere. It's not exactly trivial to get a replacement car either, nor is repair somehow instant.
I get what you're saying, but it's way less one sided than you're trying to convey. My car once broke down on the freeway in a city. I had to wait more than an hour for a tow and then walk home, which took two hours. Had to get random coworkers or friends to take me to work while my car was repaired over the next two weeks.
Oh, and traffic jams are routine for cars.
Nothing is gained by pretending there's no downsides to any mode of transportation. They all have them. In aggregate though, most people would be better off if we had more available than just "car".
Btw news bias. There are so many people dying in car accidents, that the news would be full of them, every single day, if they got the coverege that even non lethal technical issues with trains get.
That sounds to me like an extreme situation.
All trains have emergency releases on the door to allow manual opening. Practically, if it is actually getting hot to the point of danger, no conductor is going to physically stop you from leaving the train. More likely they'd be the ones to let people off.
I'd need to see a news story of this happening where they were trying to force people to stay on a dangerously hot train. This sounds like a made up scenario.
Traffic jam? Not sure how it is in Australia but where I live you are not allowed to leave the car and it can take hours. Traffic jams happen much more frequently than your scenario. Never had AC fail on me in the entire train and I use trains almost daily.
I just lane filter in my motorcycle, I don't believe in traffic 😎🤘
Opening your helmet in this kind of weather feels like someone is using a hairdryer on your face.
Still more comfortable than than being stuck in traffic, but it's not great.
Yea once ur above 98 F or so, going faster actually makes you hotter! Like being in an air fryer lol. The air can only cool you down if it's below body temp! Thankfully where I live even 90f is a RARE heat 🤞 for now...
None of these issues is exclusive to trains. I would argue that they are more common in cars, and even more, cars take, on average, longer to repair.
I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here. Cars break down all the time, and there’s the entire car repair industry to prove that, but obviously they don’t make the news.
Is that an inherent problem of trains or are the trains too old? Genuinely asking
We don't have such problems in Austria. We also don't have 40 degrees but I dare say it's not inherent of trains.
Really? FoxNews?