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Public Transit my beloved ๐Ÿ˜ (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] 48 points 2 years ago (3 children)

... where you live. Where I live (in central Europe) we have a subway every 2-3 minutes and you're at worst 2 blocks away from a stop. It all depends on the infrastructure. A subway cant be stuck in traffic...

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  • [โ€“] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yep. Here in Berlin traveling to my old office (when I didn't work from home all the time) with the S or U-bahn took 30-35 minutes and by car/taxi about 40-45 minutes due to the traffic.

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 2 years ago

    Berlin is one of the few german cities where public transport is done right. In cologne, where I lived, there are a lot of stops, but the inferstructure is just realy bad. They managed that trains get stuck in traffic too sometimes. And for some reason they trains only arrive in a 10-30min time window. So if you want to follow one line it's relatively fine, but if you have to change trains you have to be lucky. In the city center still faster than driving though.

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Just say central european city.

    I too live in central europe and the bus line i could take from my town to the town i work in takes 1 hr to get there and back, at the end of my day the bus only departes one hour after i'm finished with work so i have to wait for the bus the same amount of time i need for both ways with my car.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 2 years ago*

    Also, trams/streetcars in Zurich have right of way and the red lights change for them. Which is completely logical considering how many more people you can fit in them than a few cards at a red light. The problems with public transit in North America are a function of our car infrastructure.

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